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But 'twas out of the frying-pan, as the word goeth. For the boatman had scarce told us the matter, and that it was a man and a woman for stealing glazed windows out of housen, and that the man was hanged at daybreak, and the quean to be drowned, when lo! they did fling her off the bridge, and fell in the water not far from us. And oh! Margaret, the deadly splash! It ringeth in mine ears even now.
The saint laughed at Zarathustra, and spake thus: "Then see to it that they accept thy treasures! They are distrustful of anchorites, and do not believe that we come with gifts. The fall of our footsteps ringeth too hollow through their streets. And just as at night, when they are in bed and hear a man abroad long before sunrise, so they ask themselves concerning us: Where goeth the thief?
And for the rest of that evening the deep church-bell tolled, and the shrill school-bell tolling after it, shivered out into the wintry night air its tremulous message that the soul of Daubeny had passed away. "Be the day weary or be the day long At last it ringeth to even-song."
Do you, too, feel as I do at times, the awful sadness of that text, "The time shall come when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Lord, and shall not see it"? Then remember that "The night is never so long But at last it ringeth for matin song." And even as it is around us here, so it is in the world of men.
The crackling blaze leaped up the broad-throated chimney it snapped with the energy of Fourth of July pyrotechnics, and threw a ruddy glow on happy faces. Betty sang: "Merry, merry Christmas, everywhere, Cheerily it ringeth through the air. Christmas bells, Christmas trees, Christmas odors on the breeze. Merry, merry Christmas, everywhere, Cheerily it ringeth through the air!"
'Will this day niver come to an end? cried Bell, plaintively. 'Oh, mother! it'll come to an end some time, never fear. I've heerd say "Be the day weary or be the day long, At length it ringeth to even-song." 'To even-song to even-song, repeated Bell. 'D'ye think now that even-song means death, Sylvie? 'I cannot tell I cannot bear it.
"A lump of wo affliction is, Yet thence I borrow lumps of bliss; Though few can see a blessing in't, It is my furnace and my mint." "Crosses grow anchors, bear as thou shouldst so Thy cross, and that cross grows an anchor too." "Be the day weary, or be the day long, At length it ringeth to Evensong." Practical wisdom is only to be learnt in the school of experience.
"It pleaseth me it ringeth in mine ears yea, most pleasantly. Proceed, the girl was as the Pyrrha of Horace "Quis multa gracillis te puer in rosa Perfusis liquidis urgit odoribus. Grate, Pyrrha sub antro?" "That's all high Dutch to me, master; but I'll go on if I can. My memory box be a little out of order. Let me see oh!
"Merry, Merry Christmas everywhere, Cheerily it ringeth through the air," sang Grace Harlowe joyously as she twined a long spray of ground pine about the chandelier in the hall, then stepping down from the stool on which she had been standing, backed off, viewing it critically.
"Be the day weary or never so long, At length it ringeth to even song." There is little to chronicle in the events of the next few years. Livingstone resided almost entirely at Kerton. He rode as hard, and distinguished himself in all other field-sports as much as ever.
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