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Nay, the Devil himself appeared to me in person one night when I couldn't sleep; and although I was a good deal frightened by the evil fellow, still I could not help respecting him, and paying him my duty as an ever helpful aide-de-camp of tale-writers in lack of help; and, by way of spiting you all, I determined to set to work and surpass even Cyprian himself in the line of the fearsome and the terrible."
He shook his head slowly in response. "Our paragon might not be found in the House of Lusignan, perchance. But surely he would not be a Louis of Savoy nor a Ferdinand of Naples no more than a Carlotta. Nor any Cyprian noble who hath eyes upon the Crown." "Not this, also!" she cried, startled; "not this!" "So rumor hath it; but none is strong enough. It frets me not.
Cyprian, in a beautiful passage on envy, calls it 'the moth of the soul: but perhaps, even that passion is less gnawing, less a 'tabes pectoris, than ambition. You are surprised at my heat the fact is, I am enraged at thinking how much we forfeit, when we look up only, and trample unconsciously, in the blindness of our aspiration, on the affections which strew our path.
And they have founded a very noteworthy temple in his honour before the city on the sea-shore, in which they conduct all other customary services, and also celebrate there a festival which they call the "Cypriana"; and the sailors are accustomed to name after Cyprian the storm, which I mentioned lately, giving it the same name as the festival, since it is wont to come on at the time at which the Libyans have always been accustomed to celebrate the festival.
"And now, my Father," she said, throwing back her head with sudden vigor, and with the dignity of a great resolve, "this is my question, which hath come to me in the watches of the night and will not be denied, and for which I have summoned thee. I being wife to Janus, who hath been crowned King of this people and I, with him, crowned Queen; and by his will left Queen of Cyprus with Council, appointed by him, to help me rule; shall I, a Christian woman a Venetian and not a Cyprian his widow hold this kingdom against Carlotta, who is daughter to the King, the father of my husband and to the rightful Queen, Elen
Peter, leading them into a land flowing with oil and wine. S. Cyprian, De Unitate Ecclesiæ. Gregorovius, i. 286. "Das Papstthum, vom Kaiser des Abendlandes befreit, erstand, und die Kirche Roms wuchs unter Trümmern mächtig empor. Sie trat an die Stelle des Reichs." Gregorovius, i. 200. St. Ignatius, Epistle to the Romans.
Dionysius, and St Cyprian, so little exercised a doctor's office, as to incur, however undeservedly, the imputation of doctrinal inaccuracy.
However, the evening before Cyprian went away I had a great argument with him as to his having far too much to do with the Devil and his family; and I told him candidly that my present opinion of his tale, 'The Singers' Contest, is that it is a thoroughly faulty and bungling piece of work, although when he read it to us I approved of it, for many specious reasons.
Speaking of the intercession of Christ 'If the people sin a thousand times, they need no other Saviour; because this suffices for all things, and cleanses from all sin. Florry, we have jointly admired the character of one of the earliest martyrs, St. Cyprian. Will you hear him on this subject? 'Christ, if it be possible, let us all follow. Let us be baptized in his name.
One night, when the guests had departed, Mrs. Rooke had something to tell her husband. "That little wretch, Nelly Drummond!" she said. "I thought she was as innocent and candid as a child. Would you believe it that all the time she has been engaged to that gawky cousin of hers?" "My dear Belinda, all what time?" "Well, for a lawyer, Cyprian "
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