All in good time, then, it shall dwell within me, so that I may know a way to save the worthy." He grasped her wrist and bent eagerly forward, with the same wild look in his eyes that had before disquieted her.
"Mark what I say now--I shall do great works for this generation; I am strangely favoured of God; I have felt the spirit quicken wondrously within me, and I know the Lord works not in vain; what great wonder of grace I shall do, what miracle of salvation, I know not, but remember, it shall be transcendent; tell it to no one, but I know in my inner secret heart it shall be a greater work than man hath yet done." He stopped and drew himself up, shaking his head, as if to shrug off the spell of his own feeling.
"Now, now! stop it at once, and come to the house.

I've been tending your father and mother, and I'm going to tend you.

What you need directly is food.

Your look may be holy, but I prefer full cheeks.

Not another word until you have eaten every crumb I put before you." With an air of captor, daintily fierce, she led him toward the house and up to the door, which she pushed open before him.
"Come softly, your mother may be still asleep--no, your father is talking--listen!" A querulous voice, rough with strong feeling, came from the inner room.
"Here, I tell you, is the prophecy of Joseph to prove it, away back in 1832: 'Verily thus saith the Lord concerning the wars that will shortly come to pass, beginning at the rebellion of South Carolina, which will terminate in the death and misery of many souls.