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Then, one morning in Lord Street, Liverpool, fifteen years after the death of old Twemlow and the misappropriation of the little book, Meshach encountered Arthur Twemlow himself; Meshach was returning from his autumn holiday in the Isle of Man, and Arthur had just landed from the 'Servia. The two men were mutually impressed by each other's skill in nicely conducting an interview which ninety-nine people out of a hundred would have botched; for they had last met as boy of seventeen and man of forty.
Or was that pallor merely the effect on his face of raising the coloured candle-shade as he extinguished the candle? She could not be sure. 'Uncle Meshach ought to be in the lunatic asylum, I think, John's voice came majestically out of the gloom as they groped towards the door.
"You marry Meshach Milburn!" shouted the Judge, "O curse of God! not him?" "Yes, this night," answered Vesta; "I respect him. I hold these obligations by his trust in me. They are my engagement ring." Judge Custis raised a loud howl like a man into whom a nail is driven, and fell at his daughter's feet and clasped her knees. "This is to torture me," he cried; "he has not dared to ask you, Vesta?"
Within the limits of the old township, which was bounded on the south by the present Massachusetts line, on the north by Portsmouth and Exeter, and extended ten miles inland, were included the territory of some half dozen of the adjoining townships of to-day. Here lived Meshach Weare, who guided the New Hampshire ship of state through the troublous times of the Revolution.
'I see, said Twemlow, and thought primly that in his day such laxities were not permitted. Hannah and the servant cleared the tea-table, and the two men were left alone, each silently reducing an J.S. Murias to ashes. Meshach seemed to grow smaller in his padded chair by the hob, to become torpid, and to lose that keen sense of his own astuteness which alone gave zest to his life.
'Then if your Aunt Hannah lives longest, you'll still come in for everything, just as if your Uncle Meshach hadn't altered his will? 'Yes. But Aunt Hannah won't live for ever. And Uncle Meshach will. And where shall I be if she dies first? He went on in a different tone. 'Of course one of 'em's bound to die soon. Uncle's sixty-four if he's a day, and the old lady's a year older.
Clayton, "what were those stakes I saw some distance back, running north and south across the fields?" "A railroad survey." "Who is making it?" "They say Meshach Milburn, of Princess Anne." "Goy!" exclaimed Clayton, "I'll beat him."
The melancholy which filled the secret places of her soul was sweet and radiant, and she had proved the ancient truth that he who gives up all, finds all. Still in rich possession of beauty and health, she nevertheless looked forward to nothing but old age an old age of solitude and sufferance. Hannah and Meshach were gone; John was gone; and she alone seemed to be left of the elder generations.
Meshach bowed his head, gliding along as if bashfully anxious to pass. "Nice weather for drivin'!" added Jack Wonnell, having also taken off his own tile of frivolity, to feel the effect; but this remark was regarded by the group as too forward, and a low chorus ran round of "Jack Wonnell can't help bein' a fool to save his life!"
The king came near to the door of the furnace, as the fire became lower; and he called out to the three men within it: "Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, ye who serve the Most High God, come out of the fire, and come to me." They came out and stood before the king, in the sight of all the princes, and nobles, and rulers; and every one could see that they were alive.
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