Part 19 (1/2)
”Blessed be His Naht Rory aloud; and I continued, ”You must make up your mind to send her away to school in another four or five years”
”Iv coorse,” replied Rory sadly
”A convent school,schools for a child like Mary”
Rory's only reply was a glance of gratitude My stern ad controversy
”You mentioned some other literary work that you have on hand?”
I rely
”Yis; A've jotted down a few idays Now, Tammas--where was the Garden of Aden supposed to be?”
”My word, Rory, if a man could only disclose that to the world, he would command attention However, one theory is that it was on the lost continent of Atlantis; another, that it was in the Valley of Cashested, but I think the one which meets most favour is the Isle of Kishm, in the Straits of Ormuz, at the entrance to the Persian Gulf”
”Will ye repate that, Tammas, iv ye plaze”
I briefly rehearsed such relevant inforraphical na to his an, at Derryadd, useteh argie that the Garden iv Aden hed been furnent the Lake o' Killarney; an' no one dar' conthradict him,”
he remarked, with a smile ”But people larns till think fur theirselves when they're out theyre lone An' afther consitherin' the matter over, A take this iday fur a foundation: The furst Adam was created in a sartin place; then he sinned in a sartin place An' when the Saviour (blessed be His Name!) come fur till clane the wurrld o' the furst Adam's sin, He hed till be born where the furst Adam was created; an' He hed till die where the furbidden fruit was ait An' A've gethered up proofs, an' proofs, an' proofs--How far is it fram Jerusalem till Bethlehem, Tammas?”
”Nearly six miles”
”A knowed the places must be convanient Now ye mind where the Saviour (blessed be His Nahteous Abel'--and so on? Well, 'earth' manes 'land'; an' it's all as wan as if He said, 'shed on the land' An' what land? Why, the Holy Land
An' the praphets lived there when the Fall was quite racent; an' hear what they say:--”
(Here he gave me some texts of Scripture, which I afterward verified-- and I would certainly advise you to do the same, if you can find a Bible
They are, Isaiah li, 3; Ezekiel xxviii, 13-xxxi, 9-18-xxxvi, 35; Joel ii, 3)
”Rory, you're a marvel,” I re in the inspiration of Art--if the Artist soars to truth by the path which no fowl knoweth--your theory e of the Renaissance to represent the skull of Adam at the foot of the cross”
”Ay--that!” And Rory's note-book was out again ”Which artists, Tammas?”
”Martin Schoen--end of 15th century, for one Jean Li of 16th century--in s However, you can just hold this species of proof in reserve till I look up the subject I won't forget”
”God bless ye, Tammas! Would it be faysible at all at all fur ye till stap to the morrow mornin', an' ride out wi' me the day?”
”Well--yes”
”Blessin's on ye, Taot four more idays that ye could help me with Wan iday is about divils A take this fur a foundation: There's sins fur till be done in the wurrld that men 'on't do; an' divils is marcifully put in the flesh an' blood fur till do them sins
'Wan iv you is a divil,' says the Saviour (blessed be His Name!)
'He went to his own place,' says Acts--both o spakes iv hiot other proofs furbye, that we'll go over wan be wan It's a , I was constrained to glance round at the weather; and my eye happened to fall on the creeper-laden pine, a quarter of aseizedround here?”
”Nat six in the coorse o' the year,” replied Rory, too ae of subject ”Las' time A seen Ward,” he continued, after a moment's pause, ”he toul' me there was a man coht; an' he stapped all day in a dark skillion, an' started again at night He was makin' fur Ivanhoe, fur till ketch the coach; but it's a sore ondhertakin' fur a blin' man till thravel the counthry his lone, at this saison o' the year