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If light should dawn upon the page, as thou readest, perhaps thou wilt understand what I now say that I care but little for the bones concerning which king and parliament contend, but I do care that men thou and I, my son should be free to walk in any path whereon it may please God to draw us. Take the book, my son, and read again.
My God!" he continued, joining his hands and in tones of despairing agony, "my God, Thou who readest all hearts, and who knowest my innocence, canst Thou not ordain a miracle to save an honest man? Wilt Thou not command this dead body to bear witness for me?" The mason was stupefied by this flow of language.
'Arbaces, replied Calenus, losing all the vulgar audacity of his natural character, 'verily thou art a Magician; thou readest the heart as it were a scroll. 'It is my vocation, answered the Egyptian, laughing gently. 'Well, then, forbear; and when all is over, I will make thee rich.
But in this have a care that thou dost not compare thyself with those good folk of whose conversion thou readest not, or of the breaking of whose heart there is no mention made in Scripture; for all that are recorded in the Scripture for saints have not their conversion, as to the manner or nature of it, recorded in the Scripture. Third.
Then, after telling, as only she could tell it, of the bitterness of that parting in Venice, when, because of the threatening danger, from which there was no escape, she left her lover to save his life, she went on: "Dost thou know yet, when thou readest this, little Paul, with thy father's eyes dost thou know, I wonder, the meaning of that great love which to the twain who realize it becomes a sacrament dost understand? a sacrament holier even than a prayer.
And, behold, a certain doctor of the law arose, to make trial of him, saying, Master, by doing what shall I inherit eternal life? And he said unto him, What is written in the law? How readest thou? And he answering said, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might, and with all thy understanding, and thy neighbour as thyself."
"A pest on thee!" he cried, when I greeted him by his name. "Cannot a man cease to be himself for a single hour? Didst thou but know the pains that it has cost me to learn to play this part and now thou readest who I am even in the dark!" And then, still talking in his loud voice, he told me how he had travelled hither on foot, the better to escape the spies who ply to and fro upon the river.
Understandest thou what thou here readest? it is asked of all ministers, young and old, as they turn over John Bunyan's pungent pages. And every new room, every new bird, and beast, and herb, and flower makes us blush for shame as we contrast our own insignificant and ill-furnished house with the noble house of the Interpreter.
"Oh, I am not afraid, good father," answered the cook in a voice of inspired exaltation; and crossing his arms over his breast, he cried out fervently: "Lord God, Thou readest in the hearts of men; Thou hast already borne witness to my innocence give in favor of Thy servant a new proof of Thy infallible justice order the burning irons to be as soft under my feet as if I trod upon a carpet of moss and flowers!"
So beware that thou readest the words letter for letter as they are set down; for thou dost so at thy peril, Sir Minstrel, if thou readest not like a true man."
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