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Updated: May 5, 2025
Now Adonijah had prepared a supper out of the city, near the fountain that was in the king's paradise, and had invited all his brethren except Solomon, and had taken with him Joab the captain of the army, and: Abiathar, and the rulers of the tribe of Judah, but had not invited to this feast either Zadok the high priest, or Nathan the prophet, or Benaiah the captain of the guards, nor any of those of the contrary party.
Nathan has started upon a new way; he understands his epoch and fulfils the requirements of his age the demand for drama, the natural demand of a century in which the political stage has become a permanent puppet show.
It was a quiet, strict household, Puritan in its faith and its manners, where the Bible ruled, where family prayers never failed, nor was grace ever omitted at meals. On a Saturday night, no work was done after sundown. Young Nathan was a bright, active American boy. He liked his gun and his fishing pole. He was fond of running, leaping, wrestling, and playing ball.
There was nothing whatever occurred, at least for a quarter of an hour, by which he might judge what was the issue of the enterprise; and he was beginning to indulge the hope that Nathan had passed safely through the besiegers, when a sudden yell of a peculiarly wild and thrilling character was uttered in the wood in the quarter in which Nathan had fled; and this, exciting, as it seemed to do, a prodigious sensation among his foes, filled him with anxiety and dread.
"Thee is right," cried Nathan, wringing the hand he still held, and speaking with a grin of hideous approval; "by night and by day, in summer and in winter, in the wood and in the wigwam, thee would seek for their blood, and thee would shed it; thee would think of thee wife and thee little babes, and thee heart would be as stone and fire within thee thee would kill, friend, thee would kill, thee would kill!"
He arrived there at eventide and bidding his followers make a show of not being with him and provide themselves with lodging, against they should hear farther from him, abode alone at no great distance from the fair palace, where he found Nathan all unattended, as he went walking for his diversion, without any pomp of apparel, and knowing him not, asked him if he could inform him where Nathan dwelt.
I wish I'd thought to tell him about that Sunday. I heard he was waiting on that pretty Becket girl, the orphan one that lives with Nathan Becket. Her father and mother was both lost at sea, but she's got property." "What did they say in church when the captain came in, Aunt Polly?" said I.
I noticed that Uncle Nathan, in looking through the woods, did not hold his head as we did, but thrust it slightly forward, and peered under the branches like a deer or other wild creature. The summit of Bald Mountain was the most impressive mountain-top I had ever seen, mainly, perhaps, because it was one enormous crown of nearly naked granite.
So I don't see why it is not proper to call it paper." "I don't think it is paper," said Rollo; "nothing is paper but what men make." "Very well," said Jonas, "we won't dispute about the name." So Jonas returned to his work, and Rollo said that he meant to carry the hornets' nest home, and show it to Nathan.
It was a temptation to worldly thoughts, that warm breakfast, so savory and tantalizing to a child whose appetite was stimulated with exercise and the fresh mountain air, and it is no use pretending that once or twice she did not wonder a little if uncle Nathan always read so slow or prayed so long.
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