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Uncle Sheba often complained that he was "skimped," but his appearance did not indicate any meagreness in his "'lowance," and he had accepted his lot in this instance, as in others, rather than lose the complacent consciousness that he was provided for without much effort on his part. Supper was Aun' Sheba's principal meal, and she practically dined at the fashionable hour of six.
It was she who wrote the home letters that week, and a wondrous tale they told to the two old people, who subsisted on foreign news even more than on Aunt Sheba's delicate cookery. Graham was soon out again, but he looked older and more broken than his wife, who seemingly had passed by age into a bloom that could not fade.
"'Oh! I said; 'wait a bit, Jim; will you take a note to your master, Jim, and promise not to give it to him till you reach Inyati? which was some hundred miles off. "'Yes, Baas. "So I took a scrap of paper, and wrote on it, 'Let him who comes . . . climb the snow of Sheba's left breast, till he reaches the nipple, on the north side of which is Solomon's great road.
The waters are low and fordable, the snows threaten, but the hours are yet propitious; and such a welcome waits you as Solomon in all his glory could not have lavished on Sheba's approaching queen. *" There was much more of the same sort of high-toned epistolary rhetoric, written and sent by a dear hand, whose fanciful pen seemed touched by the ambrosial tints of Autumn.
At this council that rogue Shadrach is to be put upon his trial, and will, I believe, be condemned to death. Also we are formally to return Sheba's ring which Maqueda lent to you to be used in proof of her story. Well, we may learn something then, or at any rate must make up our minds to definite action. And now I am to have my first ride, am I not?
The ominous cry, which had been heard before, in Sheba's abortive revolt, answers Rehoboam with instantaneous and full-throated defiance. Rancorous tribal hatred is audible in it. Long pent up jealousy and dislike of the dynasty of David has got breath at last: 'To your tents, O Israel! now see to thine own house, David!
"What I've been wanting to see," said Tom, "is young love come up like a flower and be given its dew and sun and rain and bloom and bloom its best." He drew a big sigh. "That poor child who lies on the hillside under the pines," he went on, "Sheba's mother hers was young love and it brought tragedy and death. Delia," his voice was unsteady, "your mother's was young love, and her heart was broken.
"Educate," say the English. The black man obeys and puts away his gods, but he worships them all the time in his soul. We must get his gods on our side, and then he will move mountains. We must do as John Laputa did with Sheba's necklace. 'That's all in the air, said Stumm, but he did not laugh. 'It is sober common sense, I said. 'But you must begin at the right end.
These pieces of stone, stained and dusty with age, dimly hint at a grandeur we have all been taught to regard as the princeliest ever seen on earth; and they call up pictures of a pageant that is familiar to all imaginations camels laden with spices and treasure beautiful slaves, presents for Solomon's harem a long cavalcade of richly caparisoned beasts and warriors and Sheba's Queen in the van of this vision of "Oriental magnificence."
'My dear, he said, 'you must take that to the police. 'I'll send it to-morrow morning, says the charming Georgine, 'but I wished to show you my good luck. Of course nobody came forward to claim the bracelet, and a month later Madame de Versannes appeared at the Cranfords' ball with a brilliant diamond bracelet, worn like the Queen of Sheba's, high up on her arm, near the shoulder, to hide the lack of sleeve.
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