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The seat of the mighty was in her estimation the place for Eugene, with her in the foreground as a faithful and conspicuous acolyte, swinging the censer of praise and delight. The days went on and various little meetings some accidental, some premeditated took place between Eugene and Frieda.
Again the censer was lighted the charm essayed; again the room was filled with smoke as she threw in the various herbs which she had knowledge of, for all the papers thrown aside at her father's death had been carefully collected, and on many were directions found as to the use of those herbs. "The word! the word! I have the first the second word!
"'It belongs, answered he, 'to a young lady, whom you behold there; at the same time he pointed out a handsome and well-dressed woman, and I desired him to bid her speak with me. "The woman took the censer from the crier, gave him a reward, and advanced towards me. "'Madam, said I, 'since this censer belongs to you, I know where to place it; will you allow me to have it?
"Take the censer," he said to Pei Ming, "and go out into the back garden and find a clean spot!" But having been unable to discover one; "What about, the platform round that well?" Pei Ming inquired. Pao-yue nodded his head assentingly. Then along with him, he repaired to the platform of the well. He deposited the censer on the ground, while Pei Ming stood on one side.
After each hymn the clergy change their vestments and come out to burn the incense, which is repeated every ten minutes. I had no sooner taken a place, when a wave rushed from in front and forced me back. A tall thick-set deacon walked before me with a long red candle; the grey-headed archimandrite in his golden mitre hurried after him with the censer.
Again the great halls rang with the acclamations of the delirious throng; Olympius stepped forth, arrayed in a flowing robe with the insignia and decorations of the high-priesthood; standing in front of the image he poured on the pedestal a libation to the gods out of a golden cup, and waved a censer of the costliest incense.
Fancy my settling down to live with one them, and undertaking to look after her all my life; walking after her carrying a parasol and a shawl. Don't you see the ludicrous side? I always see a married man carrying a parasol and a shawl a parasol and a shawl, the symbols of his office. John laughed loudly. 'The swinging of a censer and the chanting of Latin responses are equally absurd if
"I thought Miss McKinstry had been married by this time," he said carelessly. Octavia, swinging her satchel like a censer, as if she were performing some act of thurification over her completed tasks, replied demurely: "Oh no! dear no not THAT." "So it would seem," said the master. "I reckon she never kalkilated to, either," continued Octavia, slyly looking up from the corner of her lashes.
The smell of the fragrant herbs thrown into the censer, and the smoke, which afterwards had escaped through the door and ascended the stairs, had awakened the suspicious of Father Mathias, and he had crept up silently, and entered the room without her perceiving it. Amine at once perceived her danger.
Yet they should hardly surprise one among a semibarbarous nation, which does nothing like other peoples, and which deems itself authorised to place the censer in the hands of its monarch, and its monarch in the hands of the headsman. M. de Montespan came to Paris and instituted proceedings against me before the Chatelet authorities. To the King he sent a letter full of provocations and insults.
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