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No wonder that the equally untrained leader's heart heat faster. Many a soldier, who will be steadfastly brave in the actual shock of battle, has tremors and throbbings on its eve. Gideon's hand shook a little as he drew his sword. I. Gideon's request.
Nay, Barbara, had any man three days agone forecast my doing such a thing, I had hurled the lie in his teeth, and haply crammed it down with Gideon's hilt. Nay the good sword may well be ashamed of his master; well may I look for him to shiver in my grasp when next I draw him" "Myles! Myles, I'll hear no more!
So Gideon, at God's command, sent back to the camp on Mount Gilboa all the rest of his army, nearly ten thousand men, keeping with himself only his little band of three hundred. Gideon's plan did not need a large army; but it needed a few careful, bold men, who should do exactly as their leader commanded them.
Susan withdrew, soon to appear in a dress that left her arms and neck bare. Gideon could not get enough of this. Jeffries kept her walking up and down until she was ready to drop with weariness of the monotony, of the distasteful play of Gideon's fiery glance upon her arms and shoulders and throat.
"I might have known you were Joshua Ward when I noticed all those cats," said Parker. So this was Colonel Gideon's brother! He was too weak and ill to feel or display much surprise at the meeting. "Most every one hereabouts has heard o' me," the old man admitted, mildly. "Some men have fast hosses, some men have big liberies, some men like to spend their money on paintin's an' statues.
Thus there was a great slaughter made. And as the report of Gideon's victory came to the Israelites, they took their weapons and pursued their enemies, and overtook them in a certain valley encompassed with torrents, a place which these could not get over; so they encompassed them, and slew them all, with their kings, Oreb and Zeeb.
Susan had received her instructions, so when she was dressed, she was ready to sweep into Gideon's presence with languid majesty. Jeffries' eyes glistened as he noted her walk. "She looks as if she really was a lady!" exclaimed he. "I wish I could make my daughters move around on their trotters like that." Gideon was enthroned in an easy chair, smoking a cigar.
Surely never was Gideon's test more wanted for the army of the Lord of hosts than it is to-day. Such self-restraint gives double sweetness to enjoyments, which, when partaken of more freely, pall on the jaded palate. 'The full soul loatheth a honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. The senses are kept fine-edged, and the rare holidays are sweeter because they are rare.
He rose and looked forth unrejoicingly on blinded windows, an empty street, and the grey daylight dotted with the yellow lamps. There are mornings when the city seems to awake with a sick headache; this was one of them; and still the twittering reveille of the sparrows stirred in Gideon's spirit. 'Day here, he thought, 'and I still helpless!
She was not writing when I came in, but sitting doing nothing. She said nothing to me about Mr. Gideon's call, till I mentioned him myself. Then she seemed to stiffen a little; I saw her hands clench over the arms of her chair. 'His manner was very strange, I said. 'I couldn't help wondering if he had been having anything. 'If he was drunk, you mean, said Jane. 'I dare say.
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