Ted Seth Jacobs paintings

Ted Seth Jacobs paintings
Vincent van Gogh paintings
Vittore Carpaccio paintings
Warren Kimble paintings
and learned a degree of patience. He was very grateful, and came to love them dearly and to delight in the sweet and soothing influence of their presence. He asked them why they were in prison, and when they said they were Baptists, he smiled, and inquired:
"Is that a crime to be shut up for in a prison? Now I grieve, for I shall lose ye-they will not keep ye long for such a little thing."
They did not answer; and something in their faces made him uneasy. He said, eagerly:
"You do not speak-be good to me, and tell me-there will be no other punishment? Prithee, tell me there is no fear of that."
They tried to change the topic, but his fears were aroused, and he pursued it:
"Will they scourge thee? No, no, they would not be so cruel! Say they would not. Come, they will not, will they?"
The women betrayed confusion and distress, but there was no avoiding an answer, so one of them said, in a voice choked with emotion:
"Oh, thou"lt break our hearts, thou gentle spirit! God will help us to bear our-"