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And, hard as it would be, she would not leave Josiah's side that night or dance with Hector. And Hector was thinking "What is the good of anything in this wide world without her? I must see her. For good or ill, I cannot keep away." He was deep in the toils of desire and passionate love for a woman belonging to someone else and out of his reach, and for whom he was hungry.
I shall know what it means, and that's the one as I shall marry. "Then he gripped me by the hand and left me. "I gave a good deal of thought to the selection of Josiah's wife. I wanted him to be happy. "Juliana was certainly very pretty. There was a lurking playfulness about the corners of Juliana's mouth which conjured up the sound of rippling laughter.
"I'll look no more," said Josiah, who also knew his Shakespeare. "Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong." It was passing strange and at first dreadful, this intense silence and this strangeness of the familiar earth. But after a while everything like terror passed away from Josiah's mind. He began to feel the fascination of the thing.
He had learned of Josiah's intended departure on the morrow, and that Theodora would join him again on the Thursday, and his mind was made up. On Wednesday night he would take her away with him to Italy. She should never belong to Josiah any more. She was his in soul and mind already, he knew, and she should be his in body, too, and he would cherish and love and protect her to the end of his life.
At last she said: "Dearest, if I were different perhaps, stronger and braver, I could go away and live with you like that, and keep it all a glorious thing; but I am not only a weak creature, and the memory of my broken word, and Josiah's sorrow, and your mother's anguish, would kill all joy.
On Monday after Christmas, he made his first entry into any school-room, for the object of learning to read. They have come! the long expected letters from "Jemmy Stubbing," or the Nailer Boy. I am sure they will be a treat to all the children that meet in our School-room. I hope all the benches will be full whilst Josiah's letters are read.
Josiah's sense of sin led him to long for a further word from God; and so he called these attendants named in verse 20, and sent them to 'enquire of the Lord ... concerning the words of the book. What more did he wish to know? The words were plain enough, and their application to Israel and him indubitable.
At length the Captain again addressed him. "Perez ever tell you 'bout our fust v'yage? Never did, hey? Well, I will. Him and me run away to sea together, you know." And then Captain Eri began a tale that caused the cold shivers to chase themselves from Josiah's big toe to the longest hair on his head.
Why, I myself, with my powerful mind, would git so cumfuddled hearin' his wild and glarin' descriptions, that my brain would seem to turn over under my foretop, and I didn't wonder at Josiah's bein' led away by it, much as I lamented it, for he soon declared that go there he would. In vain I reminded him that he wuz a deacon and a grand-father.
Meanwhile on this Monday morning a strange scene in this drama was being acted in Josiah's little shop. He was at the door watchful and thinking of his past and too doubtful future, when he saw Peter Lamb pause near by. The man, fresh from the terrors of delirium tremens, had used the gift of Grey with some prudence and was in the happy condition of slight alcoholic excitement and good-humour.
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