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Updated: June 2, 2025
This only is the safe motto for churches and individuals, in all the details of worship and of life: 'Lo, I come to do Thy will, O Lord, and Thy law is within my heart. 'In the thirty and first year of Asa king of Judah began Omri to reign over Israel, twelve years: six years reigned he in Tirzah. 24.
Robert Strong liked and respected her, I spoze mebby on Dorothy's account, and Tommy adored her; why, even Josiah felt towards her, he said, some as if she wuz Tirzah Ann growed young agin. Arvilly's heart she won completely by makin' her a bag to carry the "Twin Crimes" in.
Early as it was, the unhappy woman was up and sitting outside, leaving Tirzah asleep within. The course of the malady had been terribly swift in the three years. Conscious of her appearance, with the refined instincts of her nature, she kept her whole person habitually covered. Seldom as possible she permitted even Tirzah to see her.
And though I wouldn't have it get out for the world, I can't help seein' it, that he goes fur ahead of Tirzah Ann in intellect, and nobleness of nater; and though I love 'em both devotedly, I do, and I can't help it, like him jest a little mite the best. But this I wouldn't have get out for a thousand dollars. I tell it in strict confidence, and s'pose it will be kep' as such.
If, therefore, thou cost think of me again, be it with remembrance of this question, which, as I do swear by the prophets and Jehovah, thy God and mine, was the chief purpose of my coming here: What cost thou know what canst thou tell me of my mother and Tirzah, my sister she who should be in beauty and grace even as this one, thy sweetness of life, if not thy very life?
Among 'em wuz a little girl with a red spot on her forward, indicatin' that she wuz married, but don't spoze that she had gone to keepin' house yet. Girls are married sometimes at six or seven, but their husbands don't claim 'em till they're ten or twelve. Good land! they're nothin' but babies then; I used to hold Tirzah Ann on my lap at that age.
They fell upon their knees, Amrah with the rest; and the prayer of the elder outspoken was as a psalm. Tirzah repeated it word for word; so did Ben-Hur, but not with the same clear mind and questionless faith; for when they were risen, he asked, "In Nazareth, where the man was born, mother, they call him the son of a carpenter. What is he?"
They listened, and distinguished martial music in the street on the north side of the house. "Soldiers from the Praetorium! I must see them," he cried, springing from the divan, and running out. In a moment more he was leaning over the parapet of tiles which guarded the roof at the extreme northeast corner, so absorbed that he did not notice Tirzah by his side, resting one hand upon his shoulder.
About that time two women came down the street from the direction of the Tower of Antonia, approaching the palace of the Hurs. They advanced stealthily, with timid steps, pausing often to listen. At the corner of the rugged pile, one said to the other, in a low voice, "This is it, Tirzah!" And Tirzah, after a look, caught her mother's hand, and leaned upon her heavily, sobbing, but silent.
She ran to Judah, and, dropping down, clasped his knees, the coarse black hair powdered with dust veiling her eyes. "O Amrah, good Amrah," he said to her, "God help you; I cannot." She could not speak. He bent down, and whispered, "Live, Amrah, for Tirzah and my mother. They will come back, and "
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