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My faith!" he repeated, staring, if possible, harder than ever. "No," said the Colonel. "Under no provocation, thank God!" "But it's drôle," Captain Augustin rejoined. "It would bother me sorely to know what you do." "What we all should do," his passenger answered gently. "Our duty, Captain Augustin. Our duty! Doing which we are men indeed.
However strong were the attractions of the great city, Augustin well knew that he had not been sent there to amuse himself, or to trifle as an amateur with philosophy. He was poor, and he had to secure his future make his fortune. His family counted on him.
I knew from her face that I might die, but, so far as I can recall my mood, I was more curious about the effect of such an event on her and on Victoria than concerning its import to myself. I asked her once what would happen if I died; would Victoria be queen? She forbade me to ask the question, but I pressed it, and she answered hastily, "Yes, yes, but you won't die, Augustin; you shan't die."
"What will you be when you are a man?" said the little lady, sharply, for her black eyes were quick though her red lips were smiling. "Will you work for the Konigliche Porcellan-Manufactur, like my great dead Kandler?" "I have never thought," said August, stammering; "at least that is I do wish I do hope to be a painter, as was Master Augustin Hirschvogel at Nürnberg."
His wife had died leaving him an only son, whom in course of time he had sent to school. But school was too expensive and he had reluctantly taken the boy home again. It was in a fit of despair that he wrote to his old friend Augustin Ambrose, asking his advice.
"My puffed-out face," he says, "closed up my eyes." Nevertheless he had taken a great step in rejecting the fundamental dogma of Manicheeism the double Principle of good and evil. Henceforth for Augustin there exists only one Principle, unique and incorruptible the Good, which is God.
"Well, what do you think of your future son-in-law?" inquired the Spaniard. "I presume you never saw him before?" "Never," answered Don Augustin. "But if he was even less favoured by nature than he is, that would make no obstacle to our projects."
* I take this very useful expression from a delightful volume by Mr. Boyle. Thus spake the Kafirs; yet to this day never hath a man of all their tribe put his shoulder to a wheel, so strong is custom in South Africa; probably in all Africa; since I remember St. Augustin found it stronger than he liked, at Carthage. Ucatella went to Phoebe, and said, "Missy, my child is good and brave."
Filius istarum lacrymarum: the son of such tears!... Was it indeed the country bishop, or rather the rhetorician Augustin who, in a burst of gratitude, hit upon this sublime sentence? Certain it is that later on Augustin saw in his mother's tears as it were a first baptism whence he came forth regenerate.
From all these reasons, Augustin would be prevented from sailing before the end of the following summer. In the meantime, he went to live in Rome. He employed his leisure to work up a case against the Manichees, his brethren of the day before. Once he had adopted Catholicism, he must have expected passionate attacks from his former brothers in religion.
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