92 The Brothers.

 

“ And then he told them all his story, and
what he had come for, and who his master
was, and how Laban’s sister Rebekah had
seemed to come to the well in answer to his
prayer. This made them think it was God’s
will that Rebekah should become the wife of
Isaac, so she consented to go back with the
servant to the land where Abraham lived.

“ One evening, Isaac, who was very unhappy
at having lost his mother not long before,
went out into the fields to walk about and
think, when, happening to look up, he saw a
party of camels coming towards him. They
were his father’s camels travelling with
Rebekah. She, too, caught sight of him as
she came nearer, and asked the servant who
he was. And the servant told her.

“Then she got off her camel, and walked
forward to meet him, and Isaac took her into
his mother Sarah’s tent, and she became his
wife; and he loved her, and was comforted
after his mother’s death.

“Isaac and Rebekah had two sons, called
Esau and Jacob. Esau, the eldest, was a
rough sort of youth, fond of hunting and
going out with his father ; Jacob was quieter,
and more content to stop at home with his
mother. So it happened that Isaac thought