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"However," said he, "'twill not be long, the culprits having been taken red-handed." He added, "And you know, in any case you could not leave the place this week." Denys stared at this remark, and Gerard smiled at what he thought the simplicity of the old gentleman in dreaming that a provincial town of Burgundy had attraction to detain him from Rome and Margaret.
But now bethink thee, my troth is plighted there where my heart it clingeth. You so leal, would you make me disloyal?" "Perdition seize me, but I forgot that," said Denys. "No more then, but hie thee to bed, good Denys.
Narrow circumstances had their share in the versatility of Diderot's genius as well as in the variety of his labors. Son of a cutler at Langres, a strict and virtuous man, Denys Diderot, born in 1715, had at first been intended by his father for the church. He was educated at Harcourt College, and he entered an attorney's office. The young man worked incessantly, but not a law-book did he open.
Wilfred with all the monks therein, and later the Priory of St. Denys, from which the inmates had happily escaped, and in support of this accusation I am ready to wager my body in the lists, if the King so allow." "We do not risk thy safety against one who is already proved guilty of rebellion, and who is not of knightly rank like thyself." "This is a question of evidence. State thy case."
The change is too sudden; and think me not so ill-hearted as take you at your word. Also did I not see your eyes sparkle at the wonders of Cologne? the churches, the images, the relics "How dull art thou, Denys; that was when we were to enjoy them together. Churches! I shall see plenty, go Rome-ward how I will.
"We seldom or never dissected the living criminal, except in part. We mostly inoculated them with such diseases as the barren time afforded, selecting of course the more interesting ones." "That means the foulest," whispered Denys meekly. "These we watched through all their stages to maturity." "Meaning the death of the poor rogue," whispered Denys meekly.
... of a beautiful day: See Denys Montfort: Histoire Naturelle des Mollusques; Vues Generales, pp. 37, 38.
Her shoes were red; but the roan petticoat and hose prepared the spectator's mind for the shock, and they set off the arched instep and shapely foot. Beauty knew its business then as now. And with all this she kept her enemies waiting, though it was three by the dial. At last she started, attended by her he-comrade. And when they were halfway, she stopped and said thoughtfully, "Denys!"
Outside it, towards the market-place, is a noble gallery, and above it four famous horses, cut in brass by the ancient Romans, and seem all moving, and at the very next step must needs leap down on the beholder. About the church are six hundred pillars of marble, porphyry, and ophites. Inside is a treasure greater than either, at St. Denys, or Loretto, or Toledo.
"You will drive the child out of her senses if you do!" Avery exclaimed. He shrugged his shoulders. "My dear Mrs. Denys, permit me to remind you that I have had considerable experience in the upbringing of children." "And they are all afraid of you," Avery said. He smiled. "In my opinion a little wholesome awe is salutary. No, Mrs. Denys, I cannot listen any further to your persuasion.
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