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Withdrawing the short jet-headed pins from her bonnet with a hurried movement, she stabbed them into the hard round pincushion on her bureau, and after throwing a knitted cape over her shoulders, went down the wide staircase to where Reuben awaited her in the hall. As she walked she groped slightly and peered ahead of her with her nervous, short-sighted gaze.
Then he stepped round to her and asked if Reuben would soon be down. "Oh! dear little fellow," exclaimed Mary, starting up, "He did not sleep in my room, so I know nothing about him; but now I will run to find him to bring him to breakfast. I dare say he has overslept himself, or I should have heard of him before now."
Under him, however, began the work of conquest; the rich pasture lands of Gilead and Basan were subdued, and the tribes of Reuben and Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, were permitted to take these as their inheritance, though beyond the proper boundary, the Jordan.
Sally were the first to get a firm hold: but I believe I've grasped it myself now, and by God's help I mean not to let go." "This is indeed joyful news, dear friend," said Horace Jackson, when he could trust himself to speak. "Who would have thought it?" "Ay, who indeed?" said Reuben warmly.
Reuben said that there was a time, more than a hundred years before the Revolutionary War, when the town of Gosport, which included all the islands, contained from three hundred to six hundred inhabitants. Miss De Severn wished that they had time to read some old preserved records of that place, which were now to be seen at the hotel.
Read it out." His voice was ghastly strange. Reuben approached him and took the letter from his fingers. In this exchange their hands met, and Ezra's was like ice. He laid it on Reuben's shoulder, repeating, "Read it out." "'Dear Mr. Gold," read Reuben, "I have not answered your esteemed note until now, though in receipt of it since Thursday." "Thursday?" said Ezra. "Thursday," repeated Reuben.
"Our parents often spoke of his late master as 'old Reuben, but children are not easily disabused of a favourite fancy, and in Patty's thoughts and in mine the old man was long gratefully remembered as Old Father Christmas." MASTER Peter, and the two ubiquitous young Cratchits went to fetch the goose, with which they soon returned in high procession.
A tall man with dangling watch seals edged up to Cicely's father. "I am satisfied at last, Reuben Hallowell, that our ship is lost," he said. "We did wrong to wait for war to make our fortunes, and it is high time that we went back to the lesser risks and the smaller gains of peace. Will you let me join in lading your next vessel?
But the One who makes it knows He's a-workin' in the pattern, and the black dark bits only serve to show up the bright that's a-comin'. 'Ay, said Reuben, sinking into a chair; 'I mind plenty o' black days in my life; but I've had a many bright 'uns too ay, and one white 'un, and that were last Toosday! It be a fine patch o' white in my quilt, Jenny!
Why, you are as welcome as Hannah herself, and you couldn't be more so!" exclaimed the hearty voice of Reuben Gray, as he returned almost immediately after taking Hannah in. "I know it, Uncle Reuben. You are very good to me; and I do hope to make myself very useful to you," replied the boy. "You'll be a fortun' to me, lad an ample fortun' to me! But why don't you go in out of the midnight air?
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