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Just then Khalîl, the concertina-player, a dull-eyed, fattish man, who had kept silence, suddenly drew all eyes upon himself by picking up his instrument from the floor and playing a few chords softly. "All right, Khalîl! Come along then! Neffer say die, ole chabbie!" Elias encouraged him.
I will give thee my gold ring with the large carbuncle, if thou bring this business to a good result." After a decent interval, Iskender paid another visit to the kitchen and, returning, said: "He gave no answer to my knock, and I feared to enrage him by repeated knocking. I will return presently." Elias promised him a dagger of rare workmanship.
These prophets were much agitated, attracting great attention, "crying aloud," etc. When Elias was told by the angel, that he would see the Lord in Mount Horeb, he hid himself in a cave. He saw a great trembling of the earth. God was not there. There came a great whirlwind. God was not there. Then there came a little zephyr. God was in the still small voice.
Elias found himself overpowered with sleep, and in his slumber he saw a venerable old man, clothed in white, with pontifical ornaments, who told him that Francis must prepare himself to suffer patiently for two years more, after which, death would deliver him, and would cause him to pass into perfect repose, free from all pain.
It was past midnight when he left David Cable's, not to go to his own home, but to that of Elias Droom.
They would say that you had played a trick to win some praise, they would say...." "But what can be done?" "Already I have told you. Destroy all the papers you have which relate to you; flee and await developments." "And Maria Clara?" exclaimed the young man. "No; death first!" Elias wrung his hands and said: "Well, then, at least avoid the blow. Prepare yourself against their accusations."
The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him. Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
Britt was sure that Frank Vaniman knew his place and was keeping it. Therefore, Mr. Britt lighted a fresh cigar and blew visible smoke rings and inflated invisible mental bubbles and did not pay any more attention to what Prophet Elias was saying outside.
The mission now had eight native helpers, among whom were three bishops and two priests, all, except one, residing with the mission. That one was the venerable Mar Elias, the oldest bishop in the province, who superintended one of the schools. He had adopted the practice of translating portions of the Epistles, which he read statedly in his church.
Beyond a disposition which was exhibited by the uninitiated to applaud at the end of certain prayers, by way of showing that they sympathised with the sentiments expressed, no audience could have behaved better. There was a murmur of interest, however, when Elias B. Hopkins, looking down on the congregation from his rostrum of casks, began his address.
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