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Title: Wandering heroes
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Price, Lillian Louise, 1865-
Subjects: Heroes
Publisher: New York, Boston (etc.) Silver, Burdett and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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treturning from the fields, staff in hand, whenRebekah ran to him, showing him the rich orna-ments and telling her story. He went at once tothe well where the servant still waited with hiscamels. Laban greeted the servant with warmwords of welcome, and together they entered thecity gate and came to the tents of the householdof Bethuel. The camels were led to a resting-place,the great saddles laden with rich gifts carried to thetents, and a vessel of water set before the servantthat he might wash his feet. Bethuel now came into the tent and heard all theservants story from beginning to end, even to thepoint where he prayed Bethuel to let him takeRebekah back with him to be a wife to Isaac.Bethuel and Laban both gave their consent, andthe servant again thanked the Lord God. Then hetook the precious gifts that he had brought and laidthem before Rebekah. After this they all sat downto supper. The servant was anxious to get back to his ownland, so in the morning he proposed that he and the
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ABRAHAM AND ISAAC. 13 maiden start at once. Rebekahs mother and herbrother Laban, realizing how far from them she wasgoing, asked the servant to delay the homewardjourney for ten days. But as he insisted, theycalled in Rebekah, explained to her the servantsdesire and said, Wilt thou go with this man ?: She answered simply, I will go. Preparations for the departure were soon com-pleted, and the entire family of Bethuel cametogether to bid Rebekah farewell. The cameltrain stood at the door. Upon one camel Rebekahwas to ride, and beside her upon another, her nurse.With them also went a train of damsels, the hand-maids of Rebekah. Bethuel and her brothers blessed Rebekah as shestood beside her mother in the door of the tent.Then she mounted her camel, and the little trainrode away from Nahor and set their faces towardBeer-sheba. In Beer-sheba there were three great wells ofwater from which the flocks were watered. Thesehad become so low that Isaac was compelled totake a part of the flocks

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