Go Tell It on the Mountain

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He watched her face, his heart swollen with love for her and with an anguish, not yet his own, that he did not understand and that frightened him.†

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And now she wept, after her long austerity, as though she would never be able to stop.†

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He stood, stupid with bewilderment and grief, a few inches from the bed.†

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The courtroom seemed to feel, with some complacency and some disappointment, that it was his great good luck to be let off so easily.†

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Yes, their parts were all cut off, they were dishonored, their very names were nothing more than dust blown disdainfully across the field of time? to fall where, to blossom where, bringing forth what fruit hereafter, where?†

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He kicked, pounded, twisted, pushed, using his lack of size to confound and exasperate Elisha, whose damp fists, joined at the small of John's back, soon slipped.†

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For there were really two dreams, the first like a dim, blurred, infernal foreshadowing of the second.†

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"Yes," said Elisha, with a grave, sweet smile, "that's the Man you got to call on."†

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Again he felt this strange chill in him, implying disaster and delight; and then he hoped that she would not come, that something would happen that would make it impossible for him ever to see her again.†

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Then she shrugged, the mildest, most indifferent gesture he had ever seen, and smiled.†

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"You come crying back soon enough," said Gabriel, with malevolence, "soon as they whip your butt up there four or five times."

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John smiled back at her, a smile that, despite the shy gratitude it was meant to convey, did not escape being ironic, or even malicious.†

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His first thought, nevertheless, was: "Will anyone remember?"†

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In the moment that these words filled the room, and hung in the room like the infinitesimal moment of hanging, jagged light that precedes an explosion, John and his father were staring into each other's eyes.†

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She knew that she was mouthing words; and she realized suddenly that her mother scorned to dignify these words with her attention.†

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And Ella Mae was not so beautiful now as she was when she was singing and testifying, but looked like a sullen, ordinary girl.†

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And among those many voices, and stammering with his own, John would care no longer for her testimony.†

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When he was young, John had paid no attention in Sunday school, and always forgot the golden text, which earned him the wrath of his father.†