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"And when that event comes off, you'll sail past the post lengths in front of any one else." And with that Jerry took his departure. A minute later Diana heard the front door bang, and from the window watched him striding along the street. He looked back, just before he turned the corner, and waved his hand cheerily. "Nice boy!" she murmured, and then set about her unpacking in good earnest.
In spite of recollection, which reminded Diana how often she had contended that all Mr.
Oh, my dear, this is important: Annius Verus on the reverse of Commodus, both as children, a rare example yet not as rare as Jeanne, you must engrave this gold medal in your heart, it is priceless: head of Augustus with laurel, Diana walking on the reverse. You ought to take an interest in her. Diana the fair huntress. This collection is heavenly!
Aeneas and his companions, considering the land accursed by the stain of such a crime, hastened away. They next landed on the island of Delos, which was once a floating island, till Jupiter fastened it by adamantine chains to the bottom of the sea. Apollo and Diana were born there, and the island was sacred to Apollo.
The seat of government had passed from Rome to Constantinople, and the throne from a pagan persecutor to a succession of Christian and orthodox princes. The genius of the empire had been humbled in the dust, and the altars of Diana and Hercules were on the point of being transferred to Catholic saints and martyrs.
"She stayed playing with Diana more than half an hour more'n I gave her leave to; and now she's perched out there on the woodpile talking to Matthew, nineteen to the dozen, when she knows perfectly well she ought to be at her work. And of course he's listening to her like a perfect ninny. I never saw such an infatuated man.
"Things are very often a puzzle to me," said Diana vaguely; and having for some reason or other a good deal of difficulty in commanding herself. "Aren't you tired?" "No I don't know," said Diana. "It does not signify." "I don't believe you care, any more than a soldier, what you find in your way.
Night and day I could think of nothing else. Wasn't that bondage?" "Depends on how you take it," said the minister. "But it was wrong, Basil." "I found excuses for you, Diana." "Did you?" she said humbly. "I daresay you did. It is like you. But it was wrong, and I knew it was wrong, and I could not help it. Is not that bondage of the worst sort?
But in time the tide turned and people came at last to acknowledge that Wordsworth was not only a poet, but a great one. He showed men a new way of poetry; he proved to them that nightingale was as poetical a word as Philomel, that it was possible to speak of the sun and the moon as the sun and the moon, and not as Phoebus and Diana.
She grasped the little boy firmly with one of her own stout little hands, and pulled him up on to his feet. "Diana, you are not to interfere," said Miss Ramsay. "Come, Orion; come and explain what is the matter." "Lollipops," moaned Orion, "and ginger-beer. Oh, I did like the lollipops, and I was so thirsty I thought I'd never leave off drinking ginger-beer."
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