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But, repenting of such reproaches, in memory of the joy that Naomi's new gift had given her, he called on God to give her speech as well. "Give her speech, O Lord!" he cried, "speech that shall lift her above the creatures of the field, speech whereby alone she may ask and know! Give her speech, O God my God, and Thy servant will be satisfied!"
Caroline thought she had done well by her sister-in-law. When the red clay was heaped over Naomi's grave in the Avonlea burying ground, Caroline took Eunice and Christopher home with her. Christopher did not want to go; it was Eunice who reconciled him. He clung to her with an exacting affection born of loneliness and grief.
Naomi's head dropped on my shoulder as he said the terrible words which committed Ambrose and Silas Meadowcroft to take their trial on the charge of murder. I led her out of the court into the air. As I passed the "bar," I saw Ambrose, deadly pale, looking after us as we left him: the magistrate's decision had evidently daunted him.
Then, one afternoon, when the rain had ceased and the little olive leaves glistened in the cold bright light, Naomi's mother approached the forlorn little figure crouched in a corner and raised her to her feet.
Yet how could he have thought of it? He had never once heard Naomi's voice save in the utterance of single words. But again, why had he not remembered that before the tongues of children can speak words of their own they sing the words of others? The singing ended, and then Israel, struggling with his dry throat, stepped a pace forward his foot grated on the pavement and he called to the singer
She said this because Naomi means "pleasant" and Mara means "bitter," and the sorrowing widow felt that her life was a bitter rather than a pleasant one, since she had been bereaved of her husband and sons. There lived in Bethlehem a man named Boaz, who was a relative of Naomi's husband, and who was also very wealthy.
Naomi's answer was always the same: "He told me to stay here, and surely I must do so." Then one after another the poor folks went away in anger. "Tut!" they thought, "what should we want with the Jew child? Allah! Was there ever such a simpleton? The good creatures going to waste, too! And as for her father, he'll never come back never. Trust the Basha for that!"
Naomi's hopes of ever reaching her father were now faint, and her poor little stock of eggs and bread looked like folly to her new-born worldliness. "Very well," she said. "I will turn Muslima."
And the black people in the chamber wept to see it, that not more dumb in that great hour of gladness was she who was born so than he to whose house had come the wonderful work that God had wrought. No heed had Israel given yet to the bodeful signs in Naomi's face, in joy over such as were joyful. When he had taken her in his arms she had known him, and she had clung to him in her glad surprise.
I've never found it on earth, and I don't believe it's to be found in God." "Naomi, God loves us like a father." "Like MY father?" Naomi's shrill laughter, pealing through the still room, was hideous to hear. The old minister shuddered. "No no! As a kind, tender, all-wise father, Naomi as you would have loved your little child if it had lived." Naomi cowered and moaned.
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