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The Dwarf watched them with the eye of a taskmaster, and testified, by peevish gestures, his impatience at the time which they took in adjusting the stone. He pointed to another they raised it also to a third, to a fourth they continued to humour him, though with some trouble, for he assigned them, as if intentionally, the heaviest fragments which lay near.
She hummed softly to herself as she moved lightly across the floor. She was anxious to get through as quickly as possible that she might take David back to Jim Goban's. She felt a little uneasy for his sake as she knew how angry his taskmaster would be with him. For herself she did not care. If Jim said too much, she could leave him at once.
"What is the dog's heart?" thought Bébée; she had seen a dog she knew a dog which all his life long had dragged heavy loads under brutal stripes along the streets of Brussels stretch himself on the grave of his taskmaster and refuse to eat, and persist in lying there until he died, though he had no memory except of stripes, and no tie to the dead except pain and sorrow.
Still less should we fancy that we are serving the cause of godliness when we are discouraging recreation. Let us be hearty in our pleasures, as in our work, and not think that the gracious Being Who has made us so open-hearted to delight, looks with dissatisfaction at our enjoyment, as a hard taskmaster might, who in the glee of his slaves could see only a hindrance to their profitable working.
Ah, glorious poverty! thou art a hard taskmaster, but in thy soul-ennobling school, I have received more god-like lessons, have learned more sublime truths, than ever I acquired in the smooth highways of the world! The independent in soul can rise above the seeming disgrace of poverty, and hold fast their integrity, in defiance of the world and its selfish and unwise maxims.
It is not enough for a man to have a good watch in his pocket unless now and then he can get Greenwich time by which he can set it, and unless that has been secured by taking an observation of the sun. Men rebel against the moral law of the Bible, and speak of it as if it were a restraint and a sharp taskmaster. Ah, no!
"Greeting," the taskmaster replied, after he had inspected the white-browed servant. "The shelter of my roof and the bread of my board are thine;" adding after a little pause, "and in truth thou seemest to need these things." The old man smiled an odd wry smile and followed lamely after the long swinging stride of the commander toward the headquarters on the knoll.
Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? Who indeed? God is not a tyrant, who must be appeased with gifts; or a taskmaster, who must be satisfied with the labour of his slaves. He is a father who loves his children; who gives, and loveth to give; who gives to all freely, and upbraideth not.
"All is hid," he said; "these things are less than nothing. What does the Duke?" "I cannot look again, I am weary," she said. "Look again!" thundered her taskmaster. "I see the fair-haired man take the parchment from the hand of the dark, stern man " "With whom I will reckon!" "He tries to tear it in two, but cannot. He throws it angrily in the fire."
Do you understand? Say now what I say, after me. For the letter A one flare and hide. For B ..." He put her through the alphabet from end to end; she laboured faithfully, and pleased her taskmaster. He grunted approvingly. "Zeer goed! See that you do not forget. And remember, you are to listen and watch, and tell me what you hear and see. If you are obedient, I will marry you by-and-by."
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