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But remember Who taught us to pray that we may not be led into temptation and complete the good work that you have begun, by leaving Sally among friends and sisters in this house." To any honourable man, these were unanswerable words. Coming after what Rufus and the surgeon had already said to him, they left Amelius no alternative but to yield.
Ask him if I haven't expressed my opinion, that she's not the right wife for him. Come and see me again as soon as you like. I'm fond of Americans. Good morning." Rufus attempted to express his sense of gratitude, in his own briefly eloquent way. He was not allowed a hearing. With one and the same action, Mrs. Farnaby patted him on the shoulder, and pushed him out of the room.
He knew every foot of the way, but even so, he stumbled once or twice in the gloom. The roaring of the sea sounded terribly near when finally he reached the little garden-gate and caught the ray of the lamp in the window. Evidently it had awakened Rufus also. Almost unconsciously he quickened his pace as he went up the path.
"Have you no friends whom you would wish to see?" he asked, one evening, when Rufus Dawes had proved more than usually deaf to his arguments. "No," said Dawes gloomily. "My friends are all dead to me." "What, all?" asked the other. "Most men have some one whom they wish to see." Rufus Dawes laughed a slow, heavy laugh. "I am better here." "Then are you content to live this dog's life?"
Perhaps in the same spirit, regarding the main point as settled, Henry now allowed Anselm to hold the council of the English Church which William Rufus had so long refused him. The council met at Westminster and adopted a series of canons, whose chief object was the complete carrying out of the Gregorian reformation in the English Church.
The weight of the mass higher up and the force of the current wedged him in rather tightly, and when he had been "pried" out he declared that he felt like an apple after it had been squeezed in the cider-mill, so he drove home, and Rufus Waterman took his place. There remained now only the great side jam at Gray Rock.
"He is going to get off at Boulogne." "Well, we can get off there, too." "Rufus, if you dare to think of such a thing!" "I don't. But Europe isn't so big but what he can find us again if he wants to." "Ah, if he wants to!" Ellen seemed to have let her mother take her languor below along with the shawls she had given her.
"Will you get it into your head," he flamed back, "that he hasn't spoken to Ellen yet, and I couldn't accept him till she had?" "Oh yes. I forgot that." Mrs. Kenton struggled with the fact, in the difficulty of realizing so strange an order of procedure. "I suppose it's his being educated abroad that way. But, do go back to him, Rufus, and tell him that of course "
Even in falling she preserved the dignity of a queen, and when the men surrounded her she fixed each one separately with her wonderful eyes and spoke through the death-rattle in her throat: "'Shame upon men and soldiers who let themselves be hounded on like dogs to murder and dishonor! Rufus raised his sword to make an end of her, but I caught his arm and knelt beside her, begging her to let me see to her wound.
Frere gave him fifty more lashes, and sent him the next day to grind cayenne pepper. This was a punishment more dreaded by the convicts than any other. The pungent dust filled their eyes and lungs, causing them the most excruciating torments. For a man with a raw back the work was one continued agony. In four days Rufus Dawes, emaciated, blistered, blinded, broke down.
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