[The Sign Of The Red Cross by Evelyn Everett-Green]@TWC D-Link bookThe Sign Of The Red Cross CHAPTER XVI 9/24
So he must needs take both Dinah and Janet with him, that she might be rightly served and tended.
Tomorrow Joseph shall go and ask news of her, and get speech with Janet if he can, and learn how it fares with her.
I confess I am glad, when she goes to fine houses, that Dinah should be there also.
Janet is a pretty creature, and those young gallants think of nothing but to amuse themselves by turning girls' heads, be they ever so humble. "Ah me! ah me! there is a vast deal of wickedness in the world! I cannot wonder that men foretell some fresh calamity upon this city. I am sure some of the things we hear and see--well, well, well, we must not judge others.
It is enough that judgment and vengeance are the Lord's." Rachel stopped short because she saw the look of pain which always came into the Master Builder's face when he thought of his profligate young son, cut off in the prime of his youthful manhood, and that without any assurance on the part of those about him that he had repented of the error of his ways.
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