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Indeed, we heard the ramrods in the carbines and the loud click of the gun-cocks. "Boat ahoy!" cried the voice again. "Row in at once! D'ye hear? Row in at once, or I shall fire on you." Marah did not answer. "Present arms!" cried the voice again after a pause; and at that Marah bowed down in the stern sheets under the gunwale.
"The woman faced him in the hour of his peace and " he paused. His voice was husky. "Yes, 'and, monsieur?" "And he knows that she would ruin him, and kill his heart and destroy his life." "The waters of Marah are bitter," she murmured, and she turned her face away from him to the woods. There was no trouble there.
"Hey, Marah, Jewler, Smokewell, Hankin all of you! They've got away in the boat." "Now the play begins," said the coastguard. "Another heave, and another together now!" We drove the lugger forward again, so that half her length thrust out into the sea.
First he sent me a son that grew strong and handsome in body, good and wise in soul. Then He kept alive in my heart faith and hope and charity. He enabled me, through long years of unremitting and ill-requited toil, to live on, loving against anger, waiting against time, and hoping against despair!" "Why did you leave your western home and come to Staunton, Marah?" asked Herbert.
"Beulah!" repeated the doctor, while a smile flitted over his mustached lip. She observed it, and exclaimed, with bitter emphasis: "You need not tell me it is unsuitable; I know it; I feel it. Beulah! Beulah! Oh, my father! I have neither sunshine nor flowers, nor hear the singing of birds, nor the voice of the turtle. You ought to have called me Marah."
Marah soon taught us how to sail the cutter; and, what was more, he taught us how to rig her. For an hour of each fine afternoon he would give us a lesson in the quarry office, showing us how to rig model boats, which we made out of old boxes and packing-cases.
But, sir, I am here to defend my mother's rights and to protect her from insult! And I tell you plainly that you have affronted her for the very last time! One more word or look of insult leveled at Marah Rocke and neither your age, position nor this sacred roof shall protect you from personal chastisement at the hands of her son!"
At length the impatience of the army to be led against Jerusalem became so great that the chiefs could no longer delay, and Raymond, Tancred, and Robert of Normandy marched forward with their divisions, and laid siege to the small but strong town of Marah. With their usual improvidence, they had not food enough to last a beleaguering army for a week.
But beneath this Marah tide that was surging so fiercely over her long-suffering heart, bubbled the pure, sweet, incorruptible fount of mother-love, and while she studied the fair childish face her own softened, as that of some snow image whose features gradually melt as the sunlight creeps across it.
Among the rest the sum of a thousand dollars was left to his young friend Traverse Rocke, and another thousand to his esteemed neighbor Marah Rocke. Gabriel Le Noir was appointed sole executor of the will, trustee of the property and guardian of the heiress. At the conclusion of the reading Mr. Sauter folded the document and laid it upon the table.
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