Let him come forth , for I must know to whom I commit this most precious trust . '' She turned her face upon the male auditors , and after a momentary delay Tobias Pearson came forth from among them . The Quaker saw the dress which marked his military rank , and shook her head ; but then she noted the hesitating air , the eyes that struggled with her own and were vanquished , the color that went and came and could find no resting-place . As she gazed an unmirthful smile spread over her features , like sunshine that grows melancholy in some desolate spot . 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 XXXXX 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 .
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