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At other times, after a long period of silence, Elvira would burst forth in excited soliloquy audible to Susannah and others about her. On the last day when they were descending the hills to the Mississippi her increasing excitement culminated in a greater demonstration. The sun was shining, and a clear frost had hardened the roads. Elvira broke forth thus
Susannah had so conned this passage that she could now close her eyes and read it as written upon the red dusk of their lids. The next letter had been written a year later. He described a great change in his life. He had gone to spend the winter in Hartford, on the Connecticut River, to be under a new physician, and had there met with a preacher called Mr. Horace Bushnell.
My pap said the best plan was to call out 'Runaway nigger! Large reward! They'd be sure to stop then to know all about it, and when they'd once stopped they don't mind your clambering up, if you can pay the fare." Susannah felt herself wholly unequal to the loud task described. "They would never stop for you," she, said. "You are only a boy, and they would know 'twas only mischief."
All night the girl could not sleep. Her malicious triumph was past; nothing but painful thoughts and grewsome images haunted her while awake, and pursued her more persistently when she dozed. By dawn of day her alarm for her mother was so great that she sprang out of bed and went to her room; Susannah was sleeping so soundly that she did not even hear her.
The Danite had shown Angel reverence, had shown by his every word and glance that he counted her as belonging to the dead man whose blood he carried at his heart. Susannah rode out from that temporary home at nightfall upon the Danite's horse. It was the season of rain and sleet, of rude northerly winds.
"Bless his little heart! I must gi' un a kiss. Here, Susannah, Susannah!" cries she, raising herself from the embrace, "come and see Mr. Benjamin and young Master Tom. You minds our Sukey, Mr. Benjamin; she be growed a rare slip of a wench since you seen her, though her'll be sixteen come Martinmas. I do aim to take her to see madam to get her a place."
Susannah, of course, had said nothing of the incident in order to avoid speaking of her daughter's false evidence; still, this miserable business might easily have come to the ears of the stern old man, and to the guilty youth no sacrifice seemed too great to smother any enquiry for the ill-fated jewel.
And then, as we watched him, I fearing because my faith was weak, a marvel happened as a sign and seal to our faith that Joseph is indeed called to be a great prophet. I wish that thou couldst have seen it, Susannah, for the miracle has given me a great uplifting in spirit, but I am come to bear witness to it, that thou, too, mayest rejoice in the marvel." There was a few moments' pause.
I have seen Cophagus, and he is determined to cut the Quakers, and reside in London altogether." "What! does he intend to return to the pomps and vanities of this wicked world?" "Yes, I believe so, and his wife will join him. She has no objection to decorate her pretty person." "I never thought that she had but Susannah Temple "
Susannah fled into the driving sheets of rain, but Joseph Smith, umbrella in hand, followed her. The umbrella was a very heavy one. Susannah certainly could not have held it against the wind. Joseph Smith held the shelter between Susannah and the blast, looking at her occasionally with a kindly expression in his blue eyes, but merely to see how far it sheltered her.
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