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The streets through which the procession moved were broad and straight, the houses on either side, built of brick, tall and handsome. Towering above every thing else, and visible from all points, rose the gigantic temple of Bel.
People call him a lovely child, and if I were to call him the same it wouldn't be very extraordinary, only I assure you 'a robust child' I may tell you that he is with a sufficient modesty, and also that Wilson says he is universally admired in various tongues when she and the nurse go out with him to the Cascine 'What a beautiful baby! and 'Che bel bambino! He has had a very stormy entrance upon life, poor little fellow; and when he was just three days old, a grand festa round the liberty tree planted at our door, attended with military music, civic dancing and singing, and the firing of cannons and guns from morning to night, made him start in his cradle, and threw my careful nurse into paroxysms of devotion before the 'Vergine Santissima' that I mightn't have a fever in consequence.
"Just three minutes' work; and a warm, fresh supper to make it worth while. Besides rubbing the silver once in four weeks, instead of every Friday. A Yankee kitchen is a labor-saving institution, Mrs. Scherman says." Down came the waiter again, and down the stairs came Bel. Kate brought two more cups and plates and napkins. "Now, girls, come and take some tea," she said, drawing up the chairs.
There is no personage who rises to the sublime height of Zeus, or the incomparable union of beauty and wisdom in Pallas Athene: what forms Bel, or Crom, or Bride, the queen of Celtic song, may have worn to the pre-Christian ages we know not, nor can know; but the minor creations of Grecian fancy, with which they peopled their groves and fountains, are true kindred of the brain, to the innocent, intelligent, and generally gentle inhabitants of the Gaelic Fairyland.
For shou'd I live, I shou'd deprive the happier World Of Treasures, I'm too wretched to possess. And were't not pity that vast store of Beauty Shou'd, like rich Fruit, die on the yielding Boughs? Dia. And are you then resolved to be a Stranger to me? Bel. For ever! for a long Eternity! Dia. O thou'st undone me then; hast thou found out A Maid more fair, more worthy of thy Love? Look on me well.
And he replied: "It must be admitted nevertheless that these signs are obscure. But while I study them I forget Balkis, and that is a great boon." And among truths most useful to know, the mage taught that the stars are fixed like nails in the arch of the sky, and that there are five planets, namely: Bel, Merodach, and Nebo, which are male, while Sin and Mylitta are female.
I long to be resolv'd where 'twas Sir Feeble was last night if it were he by which I might find out my invisible Mistress. Noi. Noble Mr. Bel. Will you please to sit, Sir? Gay. Sir Cau. Noi. Know him, Sir! ay, too well Bea. The World's well amended with him, Captain, since I lost my Money to him and you at the George in White-Fryers. Noi.
Grand, great men, mighty of body and broad of brow, were these priests of Bel, strong with the meat and the wine of the offerings that were their daily portion, and confident in the faith of their ancient wisdom.
No, that wou'd not do, the Baggage was damnably in love with a young Fellow they call Bellmour, a handsome young Rascal he was, they say, that's truth on't; and a pretty Estate: but happening to kill a Man he was forced to fly. Bel. That was great pity, Sir. Sir Feeb.
His tyrant, Philippe le Bel, was but forty-six years of age, still young-looking and handsome; but the decree had gone forth against him, and he fell into a bad state of health. He was thrown from his horse while pursuing a wild boar, and the accident brought on a low fever, which, on the 29th of November, 1314, brought him likewise to the grave.
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