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Sleepinbuff found the John Bull's idea so amusingly eccentric, that, for the first time since a very long period, he burst into a peal of hearty laughter. Morok, pale with rage, rushed towards him with so menacing an air, that Goliath was obliged to interpose. "Come, come," said Jacques, "don't be angry; if it is serious, I will not laugh any more."
David, when he went against Goliath, had only his home-made sling and a few stones from the brook. But he went up to battle with unshaken faith in God. He had not much to start with in the way of weapons, but he had the courage to use what he did have. And he is famous to this day as Israel’s deliverer. Samson had only a jaw-bone, but he did not stop a moment to lament that fact.
A tiny lizard crossed their path, its beautiful colors shining in the sunlight. But what a sad fate befell it! Veronica just then turned round, and saw the cruel action; she felt inclined to cry over the poor lizard, but did not dare to say anything, for she herself began to be afraid of this Goliath, so she only murmured under her breath: "Wretch!"
The conviction grows on me that Christians have too little faith in the gospel. They do not trust it enough in popular reforms. They realize that evil is a tremendous power, alike to be feared, whether it wear the armor of Goliath, or sing its sweet seductions in the form of a siren; and their instinct of preservation extends beyond themselves to the truth itself.
As it was, the child was more frightened than hurt, and when a little time after her uncle took her in his arms with unwonted tenderness, she clung to him and burst into passionate sobs. "Take care of me, uncle! That nasty old Goliath! He tried to kill me, he did! I saw him coming on the top of me. God only just saved me in time, didn't He?"
"I tell you again, that, if you dare give any food to the beasts I will turn you away." Goliath uttered a low growl as hoarse as a bear's, and looked at the Prophet with a mixture of anger and stupefaction. Morok, having given his orders, walked up and down the loft, appearing to reflect. Then, addressing himself to Goliath, who was still plunged in deep perplexity, he said to him.
"The street is full of rumors," he said; "Bullion is a large owner in the Neversink." "Bosh!" said Fletcher, "Bullion is in there for fifty thousand, to be sure; but what is that? He has other property enough, half a million, at least." "Still, a pebble brought down Goliath. A house in New York, worth a million, failed yesterday for want of twenty-five thousand." "Don't you be alarmed.
His bravery had already given him renown, and it was certain that under the circumstances he would fight with the utmost desperation. Kit Carson, on the other hand, was slender and almost boyish in stature. In a conflict with the burly savage it would be a David meeting a Goliath. It was a peculiarity of Mr. Carson's mind, that his decisions were instantaneous.
Then I repeated the three paraphrases my mother had taught me, but Archie had nearly all of them and several psalms. A shepherd would be tired if he did not learn by heart, he said; some knit but I like reading best. Then he took my mother's bible and read about David and Goliath. That over he started to sing.
For, at bottom, are we not all passionate dreamers of abstract right and justice? Then I remembered; and I said to myself, "He has defied the interests. David has gone out against Goliath but the Davids do not win nowadays. I can elect Burbank." But where was the elation that thought would have set to swelling in the me of less than two weeks before?
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