[Bible sayings.] ... I laughed about Elisha ... but thereabouts comes a sentence that used to make me tingle when I was little - but I didn't understand a bit what it meant and so much I didn't understand that afterwards the interpretation could not go into my inveterate ignorance. "My father, my father - the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof" - it sounded like one of the things said in the sky in a dream which are more impressive than mortal speech and never mean anything - and in the prayer-book when it says suddenly, "We have heard with our ears and our fathers have told us the noble works that thou did'st in their days and in the olden times before them." I was much upset in my reason and only brought to, by looking at the bonnets all about and the foolish fat faces of people.