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When his startled look warned the mother, she changed the subject. Still she persevered, sapping Jonah's prejudices with the terrible zeal of a priest making a convert. When he saw her drift, it set him thinking, and he watched Ada with curious attention as she moved about the house helping her mother. It was Sunday morning, and Ada was shelling peas.
There were foot-notes to this extravagant piece of literature wherein the author endeavored to show that the whole thing was within the possibilities; he said he got the incident of the whale traveling from Behring's Strait to the coast of Greenland, five thousand miles in five days, through the Arctic Ocean, from Charles Reade's "Love Me Little Love Me Long," and considered that that established the fact that the thing could be done; and he instanced Jonah's adventure as proof that a man could live in a whale's belly, and added that if a preacher could stand it three days a lawyer could surely stand it five!
Paul's designation of the heavenly messenger as 'an angel of the God whose I am, whom also I serve, recalls Jonah's confession of faith, but far surpasses it, in the sense of belonging to God, and in the ardour of submission and of active obedience, expressed in it. To yield ourselves to be God's is to make God ours.
I had no eagerness for Jonah's society, but rejoiced to see the basket; for my private store of food and wine had run low, and if a man is to find out what he wants to know, it is well for him to have a pasty and a bottle ready for those who can help him. "What have you there?" I called, waiting for him to overtake me.
Kendall goin' down street together just as he was comin' along. He hollered at you, but you didn't hear him. 'Cordin' to Issachar's tell, you was luggin' a basket with Jonah's whale in it, or somethin' like that." Albert described his encounter with the minister. Rachel was much interested. "Oh, so you saw Helen," she said. "Well, I guess she was surprised to see you."
Friends of Jonah's, the Bairlings. None of us others knew them. At ten o'clock in the morning I had slid out of Trieste, reckoning to reach Fladstadt in twelve hours. And, till I lost my way, I had come well. I had lost it at half-past nine and only discovered that I had lost it an hour later. It was too late to turn back then. I tried to get on and across by by-roads always a dangerous game.
I have a vague impression that piety does not grow up in a night, like Jonah's gourd or Jack the Giant-killer's beanstalk; but is a pure, glittering, spiritual stalactite, built by the slow accretion of dripping tears. Do you suppose that you can successfully train my soul as you have managed my body? that you can hold my nose and pour a dose of faith down my throat, like ipecac or cod-liver oil?
He clapped his hand to his head, ran up the companion and as quickly returned. A skipper is in a low way who, whatever his position, has no eye for the weather; and he felt the tacit reproach. "Name of Names!" he cried. "There is a fog like the inside of Jonah's whale! For the ship beyond I snap the finger at her! She is not! Then forward, mes braves! Yet tranquil! They have taken the arms!"
"But I do. Petrol in one, tools in the other. However." "Jonah's right," said Daphne. "We'd better stop at Steeple." "Not I." said I. "Nor me," said Jill. "Boy and I'll come back to our dear Fallow and our nice big grate and our own beds." "Good little girl," said I. Berry emptied his mouth and began to recite "Excelsior."
At intervals the quick spurt of a match lit up their faces, followed by the red glow of Jonah's everlasting cigarette. Their talk ran incessantly on their acquaintances, whose sayings and doings they discussed with monotonous detail. If it rained, they stood under a veranda in the conventional attitude Jonah leaning against the wall, Ada standing in front of him.
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