Follow on, as Hosea says, to love them.
Don't always give them the white, and keep the yolk for yourself. You
know your duty. Haste you back home, then, and do it."
"I will not be put off in such a way, sir. You must interfere in this
matter: make these silly women behave themselves. I cannot have the
whole country-side talking of my affairs."
"Me interfere! No, no! I am not in your livery, squire; and I won't
fight your quarrels. Sir, my time is engaged."
"I have a right"--
"My time is engaged. It is my hour for reading the Evening Service. Stay
and hear it, if you desire. But it is a bad neighborhood, where a man
can't say his prayers quietly." And he stood up, walked slowly to his
reading-desk, and began to turn the leaves of the Book of Common Prayer.
Then Julius went out in a passion, and the rector muttered, "The Devil
may quote Scripture, but he does not like to hear it read. Come,
Charlotte, let us thank God, thank him twice, nay, thrice, not alone
for the faith of Christ Jesus, but also for the legacy of Christ Jesus.
Oh, child, amid earth's weary restlessness and noisy quarrels, how rich
a legacy,"--
"'Peace I leave with you. My peace I give unto you.'"
CHAPTER XI.
SANDAL AND SANDAL.
"Time will discover every thing; it is a babbler, and speaks even
when no question is put."
"Run, spindles! Run, and weave the threads of doom.
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