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A red banner, with the Holy Cross in white upon it, came floating gently down from the heavens, and a voice was heard saying, 'When this sign is borne on high you shall conquer. The tide of battle turned, the Christians gathered themselves together under the banner of the Cross, and the heathens were filled with fear and fled.
He would cross the street, in order not to meet one of them, and would throw away a garment that had brushed against one of the race. One day he went home, and found his housekeeper bargaining with a Jew; he chased him away with great fury, sent the woman off to be purified, repaved the spot where the Jew had stood, and gave the shoes in which he had chased him to a servant.
Would they not sit looking up at the stars and talking of them of the dear Southern Cross, red, fiery Mars, Orion, with his belt, and the Seven Mysterious Sisters and fall to speculating over them? How old are they? Who dwelt in them?
"He will tell us all in good time," rejoined the other, "and now instead of wasting speculation on something we are bound not to find out till we do find it out, let's go aft to the wireless room and polish up a bit." The Southern Cross carried a wireless apparatus which had been specially installed for her polar voyage.
She was silent and cross during the remainder of the evening; and the next morning, at breakfast, she was so low that even her accustomed dose of brandy, in her tea, had no effect. Now Maurice, besides his confused hopes that Mrs.
George asked Aunt Juley when she was going out with the Red Cross, almost reducing her to a state of gaiety; whereon he turned to Nicholas and said: "Young Nick's a warrior bold, isn't he? When's he going to don the wild khaki?" Young Nicholas, smiling with a sort of sweet deprecation, intimated that of course his mother was very anxious.
It seems to us that the eagerness that always goes with the cross always was and always will be the essential, powerful and beautiful thing in it.
Step by step, never knowing just how her foot was going to make the next step, sick with the fear that people were going to run into her the streets going up and down, the buildings round and round, she did go; holding to the window casings for the last few steps each step a terrible chasm which she was never sure she was going to be able to cross she was there at last.
He said: Even so; we were walking together in this country-side and came to a ford of the river, and it was somewhat deep and took me to over the knee, so I bore her over in my arms; then we went on a little further till we must cross the river back again in another place, and there the ford was shallower, and, the day being hot, Atra must needs wade it on her own feet.
Beale begged of all likely foot-passengers, but he noted that the "nipper" no longer "stuck it on." For the most part he was quite silent. Only when Beale appealed to him he would say, "Farver's very good to me. I don't know what I should do without farver." And so at last they came to New Cross again, and Mr.
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