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'Or you can say Satan has taken Simeon and bound him, added the Parnass. 'You have a choice yourself or Satan. 'Perhaps you had better preach yourself, then, said the minister sullenly. 'I still can't see what that text has to do with Sabbath-breaking. 'It has as much to do with Sabbath-breaking as Potiphar's wife, shrieked Solomon Barzinsky.
After breakfast was over there were various forms of amusement proposed for her pleasure, and she really felt very much embarrassed for a few moments to know how to avoid what to her was pure Sabbath-breaking. Yet she did not wish to be rude to these people who were really trying to be kind to her.
'Yes, he has his address out, and there is a sort of committee certain licensed-victualler people to whom he has been promising some especial Sabbath-breaking that they yearn after. I have not read it. 'I have; and it is cleverly written, and there is little more radical in it than we heard this very day at dinner.
Growls were uttered, here and there, that if the authorities knew their business this law-breaker for Sabbath-breaking was an indictable offence should be seized on landing, haled naked to justice, and clapped in the town stocks; but fortunately this indignation had no concert and found, for the moment, no leader.
Oh, those "sabbaths!" days, not of rest, but utter weariness, when the beetles and the flowers were put by, and there was nothing to fill up the long vacuity but books of which I could not understand a word: when play, laughter, or even a stare out of window at the sinful, merry, sabbath-breaking promenaders, were all forbidden, as if the commandment had run, "In it thou shalt take no manner of amusement, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter."
The road was thronged with country people, mostly women and children, who had been spending the feast-day in Siena; and parties of boys were chasing one another through the fields, pretty much as boys do in New England of a Sunday, but the Sienese lads had not the sense of Sabbath-breaking like our boys. Sunday with these people is like any other feast-day, and consecrated cheerful enjoyment.
At first he ventured in, but took care to stand under a main beam, lest the bell should fall and crush him; afterwards he would stand in the door; then he feared the steeple might fall; and the terrors of an untimely death, and his newly-acquired garb of religion, eventually deterred him from this mode of Sabbath-breaking.
I afterwards learned that some one did more than one idlers along shore; but not knowing who it was, and very naturally believing that some Sabbath-breaking boys had gone out to the reef to amuse themselves part of that amusement being to "swarm" up the signal-staff I was set down as one of those, and no farther notice was taken of me. I could not have continued to go up the staff.
'Then my wretched example cannot lead the congregation away. I am glad of it. You do them much more harm by your way of Sabbath-breaking. 'My way! 'Yes, my dear old father peace be upon him! would have been scandalized to see the burden you carry on the Sabbath. 'What burden do I carry? 'Your snuff-box! The Parnass almost dropped it. 'That little thing!
Sabbath-breaking was placed on a level with murder, though Calvin himself allowed the old men to play at bowls and the young men to practise military training, after afternoon service, at Geneva. Down to 1769 not even a funeral could take place on Sunday in Massachusetts, without license from a magistrate.
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