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Updated: June 14, 2025
Then, quite suddenly, one day, when they had got home late, and more than usually tired, the next and long-hoped-for step was decided upon. They would rent a stall in the market for the winter months, at any rate, and they would begin on the very next Saturday as ever was.
There was great opposition on the part of the friends of the students to their going into the service, at any rate in one body, but they grew more and more impatient to be ordered out, and felt decidedly offended at the delay. Finally, in June, the long-hoped-for orders came.
Morning slowly dawned upon her anxious eyes, but seemed as if it would never give place to the broad daylight. At last the sun came slowly up from his bright chambers in the east. It was the day on which she should again see her husband; the long-looked-for, the long-hoped-for. Tremblingly she stole out, ere the day was an hour old, and ran, not walked, to the gloomy dwelling-place of her husband.
The oppressed Orient was full of prophetic utterances promising the return of independence and prosperity under the leadership of some long-hoped-for worthy prince of the tediously unworthy reigning dynasties. Indeed, since Philodemus grew to boyhood at Gadara under Jewish rule he could hardly have escaped the knowledge of the very definite Messianic hopes of the Hebrew people.
There was summat up, for sure; and summat as he thought we should be glad on. I could tell it fra' t' look on his face. 'I don't think as I can go, said Philip, feeling just then as if the long-hoped-for partnership was as nothing compared to his plan.
The lady speaks English very nicely, and they are evidently very pleased to have me with them. "I was glad to settle to sleep about eleven, and thankful for the mercies of the day." It was thus that nearly three years passed away. Then came at last the time when the long-hoped-for operation was to take place.
But something had happened to him within the last few days something unspeakable, indefinite, uncertain, vague, yet very full of the most dreadful possibilities; something that might make him unable to support a wife; something that at least must delay or postpone for an unknown time the long-hoped-for prospect of his claiming her and marrying her.
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