Part 8 (2/2)
When we came close to it, up she started: ”Now, my dear Peter,” says she, ”toroods on board; for if this will do, all shall be your own”--She then lent h to compass it, the wood had soaked in so much water We then made the best of our way homewards to my wet-dock; when, just as we had landed our treasure, o ether, whereupon we launched again, and brought them in one by one; for I did not care to trust the soood day's work of it; so,to be out next rotto
After supper, Youwarkee looking very earnestly atin her eyes, broke out in these words--”What should you have thought, Peter, to have seen h the cavern, tied to one of your chests?”--”Heaven forbid such a thought, my charmer!” says I ”But as you know Icreatures by such a sight, or anything else that would deprive me of you, pray tell ht in your head?”--She saw she had raised , nothing,” says she, ”my dear!
it was only a fancy just come into my head”--”My dear Youwee,” says I, ”you reat pain till you explain yourself; for I a more in what you say than fancy; therefore, pray, if you love er”--”Ah, Peter!” says she, ”there was but a span between o; and when I saw the line of the last chest we took up just now, it gave so much horror I could scarce keep upon my feet”--”My dear Youwee, proceed,” says I; ”for I cannot bear my torment till I have heard the worst”--”Why, Peter,” says she, ”now the danger is over, I shall tell you uess you will take in hearing of it Youcast that chest into the sea, as I was tugging it along by that very line, it being one of the heaviest, andseveral times round my hand, one fold upon another, the easier to tow it; when, drawing it rather too quick into the eddy, it pulled so hard against ulf, and so quick, that I could in no way loosen or disengage the cord froainst which the chest struck violently My last thought, as I supposed it, was of you, my dear” (on which she claspedmyself for lost, I forbore further resistance; at which instant the line, slackening by the rebound of the chest, fell fro to the rock, went down the current I took a turn or two round on er, and went back to the shi+p, fully resolved to avoid the like snare for the future Indeed I did not easily recover ht, that I had half achests behind ain set to work, and discharged theood time”
My heart bled within me all the while she spoke, and I even felt ten tiulf ”My dearest Youwee,” says I, ”why did you not tell me this adventure sooner?” ”It is too soon, I fear, now!” says she; for she then saw the colour forsakeinto her arms She screamed out, and ran to the chest, where all was e drops in each collecting a s it by little and little to ht ain; but I continued so extremely sick for soet doith o down, Youwarkee would not venture me alone, but went herself with me We then found two more of the chests, which we landed; and I had work sufficient for two or three days in getting therotto, they were so heavy, and all the way through the wood being up hill
We had five in hand, and watched several days for the sixth, when seeing nothing of it we gave it over for lost; but one day, as I was going for water, Youwarkee would go withfor so taken anted, ent to the rill, and pushi+ng in the head of the boat (as I usually did, for by that means I could fill the vessel as I stood on board), the first thing that appeared wasthereto, ”O Peter, e have long wished for, and almost despaired of, is come at last! let us aiety of her fancy I did as she desired; we got it into the boat, afterit, and so returned ho, and disposing our cargo, and drying the chests; for the goods the wetted or spoiled, that even those in the last chest, which had lain so long in the water, had not taken the least moisture
Youwarkee was quite alert at the success of her packing, but lefteach chest, and could see her eyes gloith delight to see she had so pleased me
She had been so curious as to exas I had described, and she did know, as of what she did not, brought ot the blue stuff, for the moment she had seen that she destined it to the use of herself and children
CHAPTER XXIII
The religion of the author's farees, into a settled rota of action, began to live like Christians, having so great a quantity of most sorts of necessaries about us But I say we lived like Christians on another account, for you must not think, after what I have said before, that I and my farees knew all I knew, and that, with a little artificial iulated disposition, I hoped, and did not doubt, would carry theiven all o for a Bible; and a hundred tiht have carried everywhere about ined there was one aboard, and if there were, and You-warkee should find it, I supposed it would be in Portuguese, which I knew little of, so it would be of small service to ion, it ive you a s into my new dominions I have already told you that fro and evening, but I cannot say I did it alith the same efficacy However, ood effect; and I aht view, sooner or later the issue will prove the same to others as I found it to ratitude, and evils be arded, and become less burdensome; and surely the person whose case this is, must necessarily enjoy the truest relish of life As daily prayer wasand co; I mean my wife, whose character I need not farther attempt to blazon in any faint colours ofspoken her virtues beyond all verbal description
After ere reed to become man and wife--I frequently prayed before her, and with her (for by this tih contrary to my expectation, she did not seem surprised, but readily kneeled by and joined withher one day after prayer if she understood what I had been doing (for I had a notion she did not)--”Yes, verily,” says she, ”you have been reat Collwar”--”Pray,”
says I (willing gently to lead her into a just sense of a Supre), ”who is this Collwar? and where does He dwell?”--”He it is,”
says she, ”that does all good and evil to us”--”Right,” says I, ”it is in some measure so; but He cannot of Himself do evil, absolutely and properly, as His own act”--”Yes,” says she, ”He can; for He can do all that can be done; and as evil can be done, He can do it”--So quick a reply startled round presently; and fro a doctor, as I fancied myself, I shall becoreat Collelt? She toldplace--”And can He knoe do?” says I--”Yes,” replied she, ”His ie, which I have often seen, and it is filled with so much virtue that it is His second self; for there is only one of theives several virtues to other iht to Hi I have ever regretted since I knew you is, that I have not one of them here to comfort and bless us and our children”
God
Though I was sorry for the oddity of her conceptions, I was alnorant, and pleasedthat as she had already a confused notion of a Supre her to a e of Him
”Pray, Youwee,” says I, ”what is your God made of?”--”Why of clay,” says she, ”finely painted, and looks so terrible he would make you tremble to behold him”--”Do you think,” says I, ”that is the true Collwar's real shape, if you could see Himself?” She told me yes, for that some of His best servants had seen him, and took the representation from Himself
”And pray, do you think He loves His best servants, as you call them, and is kind to them?”--”You need not doubt it,” says she--”Why, then,”
replied I, ”how came He to look so terrible upon them when they saw Him, as you say they did? for I can see no reason, how terrible soever He looks to others, why He should show Himself so to those He loves I should rather think, as you say He is kind to theood, and a terrible one for His bad servants; or else, who by seeing Hiry? for even you yourself, Youhen anything pleases you, have a different look frory, and little Pedro can tell whether he does well or ill by your countenance; whereas, if you made no distinction, but looked with the same face on all his actions, he would as readily think he did well as ill in co a bad action” Youwarkee could not tell what to say to this, the fact seeht the ie itself could hear her petitions She replied, ”Yes”--”And can he,” says I, ”return you an answer?”--She told me he only did that to his best servants--”Did you ever hear him do it?” says I ”For unless he can speak too, I shouldone of his best servants, seeing you love him, and pray heartily to him, why should you not hear hireat nulumms on purpose to serve him, pray for us to him, and receive his answers”--”But to what purpose then,” says I, ”is your praying to him, if their prayers will serve your turn?”--”Oh,” says she, ”the ie hears thereat Collwar, and lets Him knoho makes them, and desires Him to let theureat Collwar, or knohere He was, and should pray to Hie first, do you think He could not hear you?”--”I cannot tell that,” says she--”But how then,”
says I, ”can He tell what (if it could speak) His ie says, which is as far frorace, soon brought her to a firm belief in it, and a suitable temper and conduct with respect to God and un with my children, I frequently referred their further instruction to their mother; for I have always experienced that a superficial knowledge, with a desire of beco a teacher, is in soe; for it not only excites every principle one has to the utmost, but makes matters more clear and conspicuous even to one's self
By thesethereon, in a few years, I may fairly say, I had a little Christian church inway too, without a schisst us