Her lips moved inaudibly , but at length she spake : `` I hear it , I hear it ! The voice speaketh within me and saith , ` Leave thy child , Catharine , for his place is here , and go hence , for I have other work for thee . Break the bonds of natural affection , martyr thy love , and know that in all these things eternal wisdom hath its ends . ' I go , friends , I go . Take ye my boy , my precious jewel . I go hence trusting that all shall be well , and that even for his infant hands there is a labor in the vineyard . '' She knelt down and whispered to Ilbrahim , who at first struggled and clung to his mother with sobs and tears , but remained passive when she had kissed his cheek and arisen from the ground . Having held her hands over his head in mental prayer , she was ready to depart . `` Farewell , friends in mine extremity , '' she said to Pearson and his wife ; `` the good deed ye have done me is a treasure laid up in heaven , to be returned a thousandfold hereafter . -- And farewell , ye mine enemies , to whom it is not permitted to harm so much as a hair of my head , nor to stay my footsteps even for a moment . The day is coming when ye shall call upon me to witness for ye to this one sin uncommitted , and I will rise up and answer . '' She turned her steps toward the door , and the men who had stationed themselves to guard it withdrew and suffered her to pass . A general sentiment of pity overcame the virulence of religious hatred . Sanctified by her love and her affliction , she went forth , and all the people gazed after her till she had journeyed up the hill and was lost behind its brow . She went , the apostle of her own unquiet heart , to renew the wanderings of past years . For her voice had been already heard in many lands of Christendom , and she had pined in the cells of a Catholic Inquisition before she felt the lash and lay in the dungeons of the Puritans . Her mission had extended also to the followers of the Prophet , and from them she had received the courtesy and kindness which all the contending sects of our purer religion united to deny her . Her husband and herself had resided many months in Turkey , where even the sultan 's countenance was gracious to them ; in that pagan land , too , was Ilbrahim 's birthplace , and his Oriental name was a mark of gratitude for the good deeds of an unbeliever . * * * * * When Pearson and his wife had thus acquired all the rights over Ilbrahim that could be delegated , their affection for him became , like the memory of their native land or their mild sorrow for the dead , a piece of the immovable furniture of their hearts . The boy , also , after a week or two of mental disquiet , began to gratify his protectors by many inadvertent proofs that he considered them as parents and their house as home .
Before the winter snows were melted the persecuted infant , the little wanderer from a remote and heathen country , seemed native in the New England cottage and inseparable from the warmth and security XXXXX its hearth .
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