[What Necessity Knows by Lily Dougall]@TWC D-Link bookWhat Necessity Knows CHAPTER IX 9/9
He will know--yes, know--for there is no other knowledge as sure as this." Then, in such a colloquial way that it almost seemed as if the listeners themselves had asked the question, he said: "What shall we do that we may work the works of God ?" And he smiled upon them, and held out his hands as if in blessing, and lifted up his face again to heaven, and cried, "This is the work of God, that ye believe on Him Whom He hath sent." As if under some spell, the few to whom he had spoken stood still, till the preacher slowly shifted himself and began to walk away by the road he had come. Some of the children went after him as before.
The poor woman disappeared behind the house she had been standing against.
The policeman and his companion began to talk, looking the while at the object of their discussion. Eliza, in the closet, leaned her head against the pile of linen on an upper shelf, and was quite still for some time..
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