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So well had Andrea imitated the great master's style that every one in Mantua, even Giulio Romano, Raphael's own scholar, was deceived, and it was only some years later that George Vasari divulged the secret and showed Andrea's monogram on the side of the panel beneath the frame. This copy is now at Naples.
There was no middle course. The row of tiny hoof marks running straight across from one safe bank to the other deceived us. It could not be so very difficult. We dismounted; Nimrod threw the bridle over his horse's head and started across, leading his beast. The animal snorted as he felt the foot-hold giving way beneath him, but Nimrod pulled him along. It was impossible to stand still.
My confessor, who was a Jesuit, told me that by that deed I had verified the meaning of my first name, Jacques, which, he said, meant, in Hebrew, "supplanter," and that God had changed for that reason the name of the ancient patriarch into that of Israel, which meant "knowing." He had deceived his brother Esau.
But I believe you will one day regain your faith: you will come back to the Church." He shook his head. "Don't be deceived," he said. "Men, great men, have said that before and they have come back. I am a woman, and these questions never trouble us; but is it not a common occurrence that men who think deeply on such mysteries pass through their period of doubt?"
Paul glanced at them. He had never had any hope, except when he had deceived himself. "It MAY be a tumour; we must wait and see," said Dr. Jameson. "And if it is," said Annie, "can you sweal it away?" "Probably," said the doctor. Paul put eight sovereigns and half a sovereign on the table. The doctor counted them, took a florin out of his purse, and put that down. "Thank you!" he said.
Keola, you are a baby in my father’s hands; he will take you with his thumb and finger and eat you like a shrimp.” Now Keola was truly afraid of Kalamake, but he was vain too; and these words of his wife’s incensed him. “Very well,” said he, “if that is what you think of me, I will show how much you are deceived.” And he went straight to where his father-in-law was sitting in the parlour.
His Church judges him a heretic and castaway for having confessed his sin at last to the people whom he so long deceived, but I for this, judge him as an honest man! And I have some little right to my opinion, for as Gys Grandit I have sought to proclaim the thoughts of many " He paused till the murmur of enthusiasm at mention of the name by which he was known through France should have ceased.
I felt some scruples at deceiving him, but I was compelled to do it and, besides, he deceived himself to such a degree that it was hardly possible to add anything to his illusions. So I ascended peacefully to my room, went to bed, and blew the candle out at the end of the most glorious day of my life. Jahel comes to my Room What the Abbe saw on the Stairs His Encounter with Mosaide.
Nor was she deceived in her faith, inasmuch as the saint covered him with the aspiration of his blessing, and assisted him with the divine favor; and he impressed on the boy the sign of the cross, and committed him unto Saint Cassanus, that he might be instructed in virtue and in learning.
As you know, I passed a quiet night. I had the hope that my imagination had deceived me that I was the victim of a delusion, as people say. It is no delusion. In the perfect tranquillity of this place the voice has come back to me. While we were at table I heard it again behind me, in the library. I heard it still, when the door was shut.
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