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They all bent down, startled into gravity, to examine a form which lay in the portico, nearly parallel with the step and below it. 'It's Uncle Meshach, said Ethel. 'Oh! mother! 'Then my aunt's had another attack, cried John, 'and he's come up to tell us, and Milly, run for Carpenter.
John Stanway stood up, gazing at his wife with an air of martyrised virtue which said: 'There! what do you think of that as a specimen of the worries which I keep to myself? She raised her eyebrows with a gesture of deep concern. And all the time she was asking herself: 'Why did Uncle Meshach alter his will? Why did he do that?
And once, the tenderest thing in life, when his father and she had quarrelled, and the light of love being out made the darkness of poverty for the only time visible, Meshach saw her weeping, and he could not comfort her. Then, blinded by tears, he lashed his nag along, and entered the low door. She was dead!
She tried to look grave and sympathetic, to use all her tact. 'But won't that make difficulties with Uncle Meshach? And people might say you had dismissed him because Uncle Meshach had altered his will. 'D n Fred Ryley! he swore, unable to reply to this. 'D n him! He walked to and fro in the room, and all his secret, profound resentment against Ryley surged up, loose and uncontrolled.
"Ez I allow, we've smelt the bait in the trap and come off with whole bones, like Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego," he said, mixing metaphor, Scripture phrase and frontier idiom as was his wont. Then he put a leg over his horse and gave the stirrup-word: "From now on, old Jehu, the son o' Nimshi, is the hoss-whipper we've got to beat.
He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God. Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, and spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth and come hither.
And although the rapid-ticking clock on the mantelpiece in the parlour pointed only to a little better than three o'clock they were obliged to eat heartily, for fear of giving pain to Uncle Meshach; to drink much was not essential, but nothing could have excused abstention from the solid fare. The repast, actively conducted by the mourning host, was not finished until nearly half-past four.
Thanks, dear friend! I am to marry Mr. Meshach Milburn at nine o'clock." A cloud came over the young man's serene face, though his features retained their habitual sweetness. "I can marry you, cousin, even to Meshach Milburn," he said, "if that is your wish. Why do you marry him?" "It is not loyal in you to ask, William, but I will give you this answer: he has asked me.
One Saturday afternoon in October Meshach Milburn drew out his razor, cup, and hone, and prepared to shave, albeit his beard was never more than harmless down. By a sort of capillary attraction Samson Hat divined his purpose, and, opening the big green chest, brought out the mysterious hat. "Put it down!" commanded the money-lender.
You, Belteshazzar, I bid to my marriage feast, and charge you to tell your fellows, Meshach and Abednego, next unto you the highest in the city of Babylon, that I expect them this evening at my table." "The God of my people Israel grant thee blessing and happiness," answered Belteshazzar bowing low before the king.
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