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When he did not answer her, Elizabeth threw herself down in the chair from which he had just risen and bowing her head on the table moaned in such bitterness of spirit that Nathan was moved to pity, and would have comforted her if he could.
"Now if that boy ain't the most splendid reader I ever did hear," said my kind old grandmother, "and I think, takin' all things into consideration it's a good thing Nathan sent for him; what do you say Lucinda?"
Uncle Nathan drew her close up to his knees, pressing her little hands kindly between his, and perusing her face with his friendly brown eyes. "There, that will do, you are a nice little girl," he said, "I'm glad the Judge thought of bringing you here." Mary was ready to cry. This reception was so cheering, after the cold interrogations of aunt Hannah.
Cunningham destroyed Nathan Hale's last letters containing messages to his loved ones, in order, as he said, that "the rebels should not know that they had a man in their army who could die with such firmness." From Elias Boudinot's "Journal of Events" during the Revolution we extract the following account of his interview with Cunningham in New York.
Don't forget that my old foster father cut me off without a cent and gave her all his money. That's why Nathan Wream married her. He wanted her money for colleges." The sneer on the man's face was diabolical. "I can hit the old man through Elinor, and I'll do it some time, and that's not the only blow that I can strike here, and I am going to finish this thing now."
In exactly the same sweetly insistent way had he been sent many a time and oft to seek tidings of the laggard milkman. His colleagues, when he laid these facts before them, were of the opinion that things looked very dark for Teacher. Said Nathan: "You know how she says we should be monitors on her weddinge? Well, it could to be lies. She marries maybe already."
You must cut it out of your testimony unless they force it. Avoid it. And you must make the jury see that your return was a matter of of well, conscience and so forth." "I must tell the truth. That is all that I can do," said the prisoner, wearily. "The judge is looking this way, shall we " Nathan Goodbody rose quickly. "If the court please, we are ready to proceed."
By the light of the stricken hemlock, she saw her brother coming toward the porch, holding Mary Fuller by the hand. "Come, brother, come!" she cried, stretching forth her arms, "you are all that I have left." Nathan heard his sister, and came toward her. She saw that he was safe, and her old manner returned. "Come," she said, opening the kitchen door, "it is time for prayers."
When the prophet Nathan reproved him for the murder of Uriah, he confessed his sin with tears, fell on his face before God, bravely accepted the most terrible punishment: incest and murder in his family, the rebellion and death of his son, treason, misery, and a desperate flight in the woods; and with what urgency he implores for pardon in the 'Miserere, with what love and contrition he cries to the God he had offended!
There was the voice of honesty in what she said, but Nathan remembered his wrongs. "If that's so, why didn't you come t' see 'er?" he said. "If you loved 'er, why'd you let 'er go down to 'er grave a pinin' for you? She looked for you till she was crazy 'most, an' she never got a decent word out of you, nor a decent visit neither. If you loved 'er, what'd you act that way for?"
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