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If the oracle of Dorylæum was an imposture, hadst thou no oracle in thine own bosom? If the voice of Religion was no longer breathed from the tripod, were the winds and waters silent, or had aught quenched the everlasting stars? If there was no power to impose its mandates from without, couldst thou be unconscious of a power within?
To the music of brays what harmonies couldst thou expect to get but cudgels?" Having thus reprimanded his squire, the good knight looked to his wounds, which Sancho complained of, but found him only discolored. "I feel as if I was speaking through my shoulders," wailed Sancho; and then he begged his master to hasten away from such evil premises.
Did he hear in that hour the voice by which leaders of Movements in later days have been chilled, 'Thou couldst a people raise, but couldst not rule? For if we assume that he felt entitled to back this weight of leadership upon God and Evangel, the question still remained, Was even the Evangel strong enough to bear this burden of a nation's future?
The sea was calling to the earth, calling to her in phrases of eloquent and urgent music, caressing her pebbly shores with winding arms of foam, and showering kisses of wild spray against her rocky bosom. "If I could come to thee! If thou couldst come to me!" was the burden of the waves, the ceaseless craving of the finite for the infinite, which is, and ever shall be, the great chorale of life.
Yet I have arms here, which thou couldst have, and there is my horse also, if he seem to thee better than thine own." "Ah, sir," said he, "Heaven reward thee! But my own horse to which I am accustomed, together with thine arms, will suffice me.
If the emperor come speedily he may perhaps be present at your funeral feast. 'Tis fortunate that he is here already. Art thou surprised at this? And didst thou think me mad enough to brave the fury of enraged republicans had I not known they were betrayed and sold? I know not what to think! GIANETTINO. But I have thought of something which thou couldst not know. My plan is formed.
Reader, hast thou known what it is to live with a heart inflamed by love for thy fellow-creatures which thou couldst manifest neither by word nor deed? To pine with fruitless longings for good? and to consume with vain yearnings for usefulness? To be misjudged and haply reviled by thy fellows for failing to do what it is not given thee to do?
"Fairest!" he whispered, "couldst thou know hear I have mourned thy illness and yet it has but left thee more lovely, as the rain only brightens the flower. Ah! happy if I have promoted thy lightest wish, and if in thine eyes I may henceforth seek at once an angel to guide me and a paradise to reward." Nina, releasing her hand, waved it gently, and motioned the Cardinal to a seat.
"I should dwell among books!" "Yea, and holy books, that bear on the one matter dear to the true heart. Thou might serve Lucas Hansen at the sign of the Winged Staff till thou hast settled thine heart, and then it may be the way would be opened to study at Oxford or at Cambridge, so that thou couldst expound the faith to others." "Good Tibble, kind Tibble, I knew thou couldst aid me!
Alban, dost thou hesitate, man?" "No, not an instant," said Harold, stung to the quick. "Not, couldst thou offer me all Mercia as her dower, would I wed the daughter of Algar; and bend my knee, as a son to a wife's father, to the man who despises my lineage, while he truckles to my power."
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