Sabine Baring-Gould

Name: The Story of Jael — Chapter IV: On the Bridge
Author: Sabine Baring-Gould

The Story of Jael — Chapter IV: On the Bridge (1887)

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“The Story of Jael — Chapter IV: On the Bridge”, published in 1887, is a work by Sabine Baring-Gould. It explores elements such as Bagg, Jael and Farmer Marriage.

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Sabine Baring-Gould, The Story of Jael — Chapter IV: On the Bridge (1887)

“ I ask any one who hears me,’ said Jeremiah, ‘is it possible that he can love you when he goes over to Fingrinhoe and fetches you a mother from there, and that woman, Mrs Bagg? It is impossible. Every scrap of love is gone out of him—if he ever had any.’
Then for a few minutes they stood silent, hand in hand, Jael looking dreamily across the silver of the empty channel—dull silver, with one thread in it of liquid, quivering mercury. The tide was rising and flowing in, up the channel, gurgling round the beams that supported the bridge. ”

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Sabine Baring-Gould, The Story of Jael — Chapter IV: On the Bridge (1887)

“ Why, Jael, they sell the land there for half-a-crown an acre, and that will make four hundred acres. Farmer Marriage hasn’t got one so big as that, and he’s churchwarden and guardian, and he rents his from the squire; we shall own ours. By George! we shall be grand folks! That will be happiness. No soldiering for me, and no-mother-in-lawing—no, I mean step-mothering for you.’
Jael put up her hand to her brow, then over her lips which were trembling, but the hand trembled also; she stayed it by resting her elbow in the hollow of the other hand crossed before her. ”

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Sabine Baring-Gould, The Story of Jael — Chapter IV: On the Bridge (1887)

“ That has always stood against me—having nothing. You can’t begin from nothing, any more than you can stand upon nothing. They call money in hand capital, but I don’t, I call it pedestal. It is not that which crowns but that which supports. What would this bridge be, if it were not for these sustaining posts? Well, your fifty pounds will be the supporting beams on which the line of our life will be carried.’
‘I cannot take it, Jerry, without my father’s consent.’
‘You will leave your mother’s money to this second woman to use, I suppose. Jael! ”

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Sabine Baring-Gould, The Story of Jael — Chapter IV: On the Bridge (1887)

“ His hand was hot, she felt his pulses beating, she tried to withdraw her fingers, but he would not allow her.
‘No, no, Jael,’ he said, ‘hand in hand we shall go through life together. You have no one else to look after you and care for you and love you. ”

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Sabine Baring-Gould, The Story of Jael — Chapter IV: On the Bridge (1887)

“ She had removed her gown and wore her stays.
‘That I should have lived to see this!’ said Mrs Bagg. ‘What creatures men—I mean human beings—be. How they rises to emergencies, and when put to their mettles how their talents appear. That besom does beautifully, doesn’t it, Jael?’
Jael remained in a corner; she crouched, with her elbows on her knees, looking sullenly at the floor in front of her. No appeal of Mrs Bagg could induce her to look up and admire the cap on the extemporised stand. The widow, however, was content to talk without eliciting answers ”

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Sabine Baring-Gould, The Story of Jael — Chapter IV: On the Bridge (1887)

“ Deary life! I know what shall be done. Run, Jael, down stairs, and fetch a broom up here, and I’ll plant the broom up between the backs of two chairs set ag’in one another, and the cap a-top. It’ll do. Necessity is the mother of invention.’
‘Sack o’ dew!’ exclaimed Mrs Bagg, when she had provided herself with a besom and placed it in the required position, and adjusted her cap on the top, and brought down the ribbons on each side evenly, and had walked round it admiringly, holding the candle. ”

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Sabine Baring-Gould, The Story of Jael — Chapter IV: On the Bridge (1887)

“ They’ll perfectly scream for joy out there to have such a settler as me, able-bodied, young, and clever having been first boy in the school, and able to say a lot of Psalms by heart, among others the one hundred and nineteenth. ”

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Sabine Baring-Gould, The Story of Jael — Chapter IV: On the Bridge (1887)

“ Why—that woman will twist your father round her finger, and wheedle out of him all your money, and gild herself with it from top to toe—or—if she don’t herself, she will her brats of children. I know what stepmothers are. ”

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Sabine Baring-Gould, The Story of Jael — Chapter IV: On the Bridge (1887)

“ Why, she has driven you out of your bed already, she’ll turn you out of the house next, because it is too small for you and her, aud her swarm of babies——. As for your father, he’ll love you no more, he’ll be so wrapped up in the new babies, and he’ll be led about by that woman, tied to her apron strings. ”

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