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"We sail at sundown," says Adam, "so, Godby, you may as well go aboard and see that all be ready." "Aye, aye!" says Godby, tightening the belt where swung his great cutlass and, shouldering his musket, set off after the three. "So there goeth our fortune aboard, comrade." "And in desperate risky fashion, Adam." "In safe, straightforward fashion rather, and in broad daylight, the which is surer than stealing it aboard in the dark." "But should these rogues guess what they carry--" "They won't, Martin, and if they should they have but their knives 'gainst Godby's musket and pistols." "Ha--murder, Adam?" "Would you call this murder, comrade?" "What other? I wonder what manner of man you'll be, away there in England?" "A worthy, right worshipful justice o' the peace, Martin, if Providence seeth fit, in laced coat and great peruke, to see that my tenants' cottages be sound and wholesome, to pat the touzled heads o' the children, bless 'em! And to have word with every soul i' the village. To snooze i' my great pew o' Sundays and, dying at last, snug abed, to leave behind me a kindly memory.
You must have thought me rude and inappreciative; but the fact is I was so startled that I forgot to tell you why I went. While you were playing I happened to look up at that great crack over the south transept arch, and saw something very like recent movement. I went up at once to the scaffolding, and have been there ever since.
1082. It is rather difficult to obtain this effect with helices or wires, and for very simple reasons: with the helices i, ii, or iii, there was such retardation of the electric current, from the length of wire used, that a full inch of platina wire one-fiftieth of an inch in diameter could be retained ignited at the cross-wires during the _continuance of contact_, by the portion of electricity passing through it. Hence it was impossible to distinguish the particular effects at the moments of making or breaking contact from this constant effect.
To a holy and scrupulous conscience like that of Marcus, there would have been an inestimable preciousness in the Christian doctrine of the "forgiveness of the sins." Of that divine mercy--of that sin-uncreating power--the ancient world knew nothing; but in Marcus we find some dim and faint adumbration of the doctrine, expressed in a manner which might at least breathe calm into the spirit of the philosopher, though it could never reach the hearts of the suffering multitude. For "suppose,Retro Jordan 11," he says, "that thou hast detached thyself from the natural unity,--for thou wast made by nature a part, but now hast cut thyself off--_yet here is the beautiful provision that it is in thy power again to unite thyself_. God has allowed this to no other part--after it has been separated and cut asunder, to come together again. |
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