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When man meriteth that he receiveth when he doth somewhat, to obtain it it is a wage, not a gift. The very life and soul of a gift is that it is not merited, but given of free favour, of friendship or love." "I never heard no such doctrine!" Marabel only smiled. "Followeth my Lady this manner?" "A little in the head, maybe; for the heart will I not speak."
You will company with my damsels, Agatha " with a slight move of her head towards the girl at her side "and Marabel," indicating by another gesture the one who was gathering flowers. "Remember, in your leisure times, when you are talking together, no mention of your Lady must ever be made. If you hear it, rebuke it. If you make it, you may not like that which shall follow.
"I detest doing my duty!" said Agatha, energetically. "That's a pity, isn't it?" was the reply. Agatha laughed. "Come, you can give a quip-word," said she. "Clarice was just a lump of wood, that you could batter nought into, might as well sit next a post. Marabel has some brains, but they're so far in, there's no fetching 'em forth.
"Ay, that was the cause," said Marabel, softly. "He came because shall we say? He so loved Amphillis Neville, that He could not do without her in Heaven: and as she could win there none other way than by the laying down of His life, He came and laid it down." "Marabel! Never heard I none to speak after this manner! Soothly, our Lord died for us: but "
"But yet was it not rightly for us, thee and me, but for some folks a long way off, we cannot well say whom?" Amphillis span and thought span fast, because she was thinking hard: and Marabel did not interrupt her thoughts. "But we must merit it!" she urged again at last. "Dost thou commonly merit the gifts given thee?
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