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One- eighth diameter of original. a. Side view. b. Front view, showing mouth and bisulcated keel. Ammonites planorbis, Sowerby. One-half diameter of original. Nautilus truncatus, Sowerby. Ammonites bifrons, Brug. Ammonites Walcotti, Sowerby. Ammonites margaritatus, Montf. Syn. Ammonites Stokesi, Sowerby.
Thus the gift of observation that characterized Popinot was necessarily bifrons; he could guess the virtues of a pauper good feelings nipped, fine actions in embryo, unrecognized self-sacrifice, just as he could read at the bottom of a man's conscience the faintest outlines of a crime, the slenderest threads of wrongdoing, and infer all the rest.
The shrine of Janus was still standing, all of bronze, only just large enough, Procopius says, to contain the bronze image of Janus Bifrons. The gates, during Christian centuries, had never been opened, even in war time. Now people went by night, and tried to force them open: but hardly succeeded. Belisarius garrisoned Rome, and the Goths attacked it, but in vain.
A Christian's conscience, methinks, ought to be a 'Janus bifrons', a Gospel-face retrospective, and smiling through penitent tears on the sins of the past, and a Moses-face looking forward in frown and menace, frightening the harlot will into a holy abortion of sins conceived but not yet born, perchance not yet quickened.
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