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The Colonel's voice was on church parade now, and he was every inch achurchwarden as well. He went through the lesson with dispassionatedistinctness and extreme rapidity. Since it was a long passage fromIsaiah, he went, as he would have said, "a rattling good gallop." Butthe words, I thought, were incongruous ones when uttered by the Colonel."And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hissunto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come withspeed swiftly: none shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shallslumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed,nor the latchet of their shoes be broken: whose arrows are sharp, andall their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint,and their wheels like a whirlwind; their roaring shall be like a lion,they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold ofthe prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it. Andin that day they shall war against them like the roaring of the sea: andif one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light isdarkened in the heavens thereof. Here endeth the First Lesson." And thebrisk little man turned over the leaves to a passage from Peter,arranged the gold-embroidered marker, and returned to his pew with erectand decorous demeanour.
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