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Ozias Midwinter spoke of his obligations and especially of his obligation to Allan with a fervor of thankfulness which it was not surprising only, but absolutely painful to witness. He showed a horrible sincerity of astonishment at having been treated with common Christian kindness in a Christian land.
"Dun'no'," replied Jerome; then he gave a weak, childish gesture, and caught his breath in a sob. He was scarcely more than a child, after all, and his uncle Ozias was the only remaining natural tower to his helplessness. "O Lord, don't ye go to whimperin', big man like you!" responded Ozias Lamb, quickly. "Look at here " Ozias paused a moment, pondering.
I'll let you have the dogs for your brothers; and, if you'll promise to be very careful of it, I'll give you my own name into the bargain. Ozias Midwinter, Junior, you have had a good breakfast; if you want a good dinner, come along with me! He got up, the dogs trotted after him, and I trotted after the dogs. Who was my new father? you will ask.
Brock opened the door, and found himself, at one o'clock in the morning, standing face to face on the threshold of his own bedroom with Ozias Midwinter. "Are you ill?" asked the rector, as soon as his astonishment would allow him to speak. "I have come here to make a clean breast of it!" was the strange answer. "Will you let me in?"
Ozias Lamb got off his keg, straightened his bowed shoulders as well as he was able, and raised his right hand. "You call the poorhouse righteous charity, do ye, Doctor Seth Prescott?" he demanded. "You call it givin' in the name of the Lord?" Doctor Prescott made no response; indeed, Ozias did not wait for one. He plunged on in a very fury of crude oratory. "It ain't charity!" he cried.
"What ye laughin' at?" inquired Simon Basset, defiantly; but he edged his chair away a little at the same time. Ozias Lamb had the reputation of a very high temper. "Mebbe," said Ozias Lamb, "somebody killed poor Abel for his mortgage. I dun'no' of anything else he had." Ozias laughed again.
Then at last Ozias arose up, and said to the people: Let us abide yet five days, and if God send us no rescue ne help us not in that time that we may give glory to his name, else we shall do as ye have said. And when that Judith heard thereof, which was a widow and a blessed woman, and was left widow three years and six months.
D, to-wit: Jeremiah Peters, John Peters, Hulett Jacobs, George Garlow, and there are others who enlisted afterwards at different times during the war, to wit: Twelfth N. Y. Vol's, Cav., Co. M. Ozias Chew, John Pempleton, Charles Pempleton, Nichodemus Thompssn. Bat. K, 1st N. Y. Light Art. Clinton Mt. Pleasant, 3Oth, transferred to 31st N. J. Vol's. Inv. colored brigade.
"What's the matter, Uncle Ozias?" he asked. Ozias did not speak, but made a curious, repellent motion with his bowed shoulders. "Are you sick?" Again Ozias seemed to shunt him out of the place with that speaking motion of his shoulder. Jerome went close to him.
It's almost maddening to write it down to feel that something ought to come of it and to find nothing come. "How can anything come of it? With all his reasons for concealing his real name, he would insist no, he is too fond of me to do that he would entreat me to take the name which he has assumed. Mrs. Midwinter. Hideous! Ozias, too, when I wanted to address him familiarly, as his wife should.
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