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Barak won the fight, and while he was making the victory complete by the usual method of exterminating the remnant of the defeated host, Sisera fled away on foot, and when he was nearly exhausted by fatigue and thirst, one Jael, a woman he seems to have been acquainted with, invited him to come into her tent and rest himself. The weary soldier acceded readily enough, and Jael put him to bed.
And even thus shall we do to the malignant family of Lee, who have aided Sisera in his flight, when Israel might have been delivered of his trouble for ever. But send out couriers and patrols Follow, pursue, watch in every direction Let my horse be ready at the door in five minutes, or bring me the first thou canst find."
This last year, it's as if the hosts of heaven had a down on me. 'The stars in their courses fought against Sisera, murmured Lady Bridget. 'I'm Sisera, am I? He gave her a fierce look and crossed to the veranda-railing, where he began cutting tobacco into the palm of his hand. 'Well, there is something in that. But the stars have never licked me yet.
The terror and agony of his dreams made me start, more than once, from my seat; and all the horrors of his assassination seemed full before me, so fatal was the sound of the instrument, so just the conduct of the harmony. Too much applause cannot be given to the Marchetti, who sang the part of Sisera, and seconded the composer's ideas by the most feeling and spirited execution.
I used to wonder and puzzle over that passage in the Bible, 'The stars in their courses fought against Sisera! I have solved that mystery, for the stars in their courses' have fought against me; heaven, earth, man, time, circumstances, coincidences, all spun the web that snared my innocent feet. The room was so close and warm I walked out, and the fresh air tempted me to remain.
"But Mr Dalrymple can paint his Sisera without making me a Jael," said Miss Van Siever. "Of course he can," said Mrs Broughton. "But I never will," said the artist. "I conceived the subject as connected with you, and I will never disjoin the two ideas." "I think it no compliment, I can assure you," said Miss Van Siever. "And none was intended.
She has so many varieties of headache, sometimes as if Jael were driving the nail that killed Sisera into her temples, sometimes letting her work with half her brain while the other half throbs as if it would go to pieces, sometimes tightening round the brows as if her cap-band were a ring of iron, and then her neuralgias, and her backaches, and her fits of depression, in which she thinks she is nothing and less than nothing, and those paroxysms which men speak slightingly of as hysterical, convulsions, that is all, only not commonly fatal ones, so many trials which belong to her fine and mobile structure, that she is always entitled to pity, when she is placed in conditions which develop her nervous tendencies.
To-morrow the twenty-sixth of March will be memorable amongst days, for then thou mayst begin the war with the perfidious Greek. From four o'clock in the morning the stars which fought against Sisera will fight for Mahommed. Let those who love him salute and rejoice." The counsellors, dropping on their knees, fell forward, their faces on their hands. The Prince of India did the same.
But conceive coming to these a man who is fugitive fugitive across such a wilderness. Conceive a man fleeing for his life as Sisera fled when he sought the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite. To him that space of trampled sand, with the ragged black mouths above it, mean not only food and rest, but dear life itself.
How opportune the guiding hand that pointed her way, when cross roads baffled her. Two days later, she would have been journeying away from the coveted goal. Now the tide of battle was turning. Had the stars rolled back on their courses to rescue Sisera? How long the happy woman sat there, exulting in the mellowness of the perfect fruit of patience, she never knew.
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