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Scarcely were they ready, when different neighbours in the like trim came to go with them; presently also Nahum Chapelrig, with his banner, and fife, and drum, at the head of some ten or twelve lads of his clachan, came over; and on this occasion no obstacle was made to that bravery which was thought so uncomely on the day of the covenanting.
Then men bound the elements to their chariots, and reaching up laid hold upon the very lightning and made it their message-bearer around the world. Nahum foretold that at a certain time the chariots should be with flaming torches and run like the lightnings.
"She she wants to leave home, Mr. Baines." Nahum said this with mild amazement. His amazement would have been no greater and not a whit less mild had his daughter announced her intention to swim from New York to Liverpool, or to marry the chef of the Czar of Russia. "Um!... Can't say's that's onnatural so's to require callin' in a doctor. Live five mile from town, don't you?
"Strike for fifteen per cent. more before he has a chance to dock us," cried Lee, with a hushed vehemence, looking about warily to make sure that no one overheard. "The worst of it is, I know it all comes from Nahum Beals, and he's half cracked," said Abby, bluntly. "He's got the right of it, anyhow," said Lee. The two girls walked on, while the men lingered behind to talk.
He knew Sarah's high temper, her eagerness for adventure.... He knew that thousands of girls before her had been fascinated by well-told tales of the life to be lived out in the world of cities, of wealth, of artificial gayeties ... the lure of travel, of excitement.... And Scattergood did not covet the duty of carrying a woeful story to old Nahum Pound, the gentle schoolmaster.
No, Nahum; if the prelatic reprobation now attempted on the kirk gang nae farther than outing her ministers from their kirks and manses, it maun be tholet; so look to it, that ye give not the adversary cause to reproach us with longing for the flesh-pots of Egypt when we are free to taste of the heavenly manna.
Accordingly a day was fixt for that purpose, and the Craiglands-croft was the place appointed for this probation of soldiership. On the morning of the appointed day the country folk assembled far and near, and Nahum Chapelrig, at the head of the lads of his clachan, was the first on the field.
I want what I earn. I don't want a gift with a curse on it. Let her keep her fine things. She and her kind are responsible for all the misery of the poor on the face of the earth." "Seems to me you're reasonin' in a circle, Nahum," Andrew said, good-humoredly. "Look here, Andrew, if you're on the side of the rich, why don't you say so?" cried Eva.
I bet she'd be glad to come." "Don't speak in that way, Walter," said his father. "I dislike to have you speak of stealing, even in fun." At this moment there was a knock at the front door. Farmer Nelson's house was an old-fashioned one, and not provided with a bell. "Go to the door, Sarah," said her father. Sarah obeyed. "Good-evening, Nahum," she said to the village expressman.
Daniel, the youngest of the four, was only twelve years of age when he was involved in the miseries of conquest, and reduced to the condition of a dependent at a foreign court. Among the twelve minor prophets, Jonas, Hosea, Amos, and Micah preceded the destruction of the kingdom of Israel. Nahum and Joel appeared between that catastrophe and the captivity of Judah.
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