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Stafford; I had deciphered a bit of old French and Latin for him, and he was very much pleased. 'Why, Edward, he said, 'you are a very clever fellow; you can be a distinguished or what is better a useful man. Somehow that saying restored the spring of hope, and gave an impulse!
The Alpha Beta of Christianity has been learned and recited more or less badly by the children of men for nearly two thousand years, the actual grammar and meaning of the whole Language has yet to be deciphered.
The Persian part of this inscription can still be deciphered with certainty, and contains an account of the events related in the last few chapters, very nearly agreeing with our own and that of Herodotus. The following sentences occur amongst others: "Thus saith Darius the King: That which I have done, was done by the grace of Auramazda in every way.
The photographs on the walls, the twigs of withered box above the crucifixes, the old wedding-dresses in brass-clamped trunks, the bundles of letters laboriously written and as painfully deciphered, all the thousand and one bits of the past that give meaning and continuity to the present of all that accumulated warmth nothing was left but a brick-heap and some twisted stove-pipes!
Moreover, Bernard, the abbot, is preaching the Cross in Chartres and other places, and is coming here before long, and to Vezelay. Beatrix greets you. "Can you tell me where I can find the messenger who brought you this?" asked Gilbert, looking up when he had at last deciphered every word. But Arnold was gone.
All the time Sir Francis Walsingham, who was really aware of all, if not the prime mover in the intrigue, appeared perfectly unsuspicious; often received Babington at his house, and discussed a plan of sending him on a commission to France, while in point of fact every letter that travelled in the Burton barrels was deciphered by Phillipps, and laid before the Secretary before being read by the proper owners.
The Hostage House of Yandjali would have told Maxine infinitely more than it told Adams. She would have read in Meeus's face a story that he never deciphered; she would have seen in the people of the Silent Pools a whole nation in chains, when he with his other-people-begotten ideas of niggers and labour only saw a few recalcitrant blacks.
This stone was called the Rosetta Stone, after the place where it was found. It is now in the British Museum. This was long before Luxor was unearthed, and the inscriptions were deciphered as they came to light; by their help it was found that the temple had been built chiefly by two kings, Amenhetep III. and Rameses II. who came after him, though not immediately.
Barbara deciphered this epistle with varying emotions. Was there no room for unselfish love in the breast of any man? Her father, even he, was seeking to profit by that which united him to his only child. To keep it, and to secure his blessing, she must give her hand to the unloved soldier who had shown him kindness and won his affection.
With one possible exception, no records appear to have been found as yet dealing with the Minoan marine; but it is impossible to believe that a people so methodical, who kept such careful record of their military stores, should not have had a thoroughly organized department to deal with the infinitely more important matter of their navy, and perhaps the records of the Minoan Board of Admiralty may yet come to light and be deciphered, to enable us to understand how the first great sea-power of history dealt with its fleets.
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