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"Ah, yes may the God of Israel forgive him!" "But how did Delecresse know?" "I fancy he guessed it, partly and perhaps subtly extracted some avowal from thee, in a way which thou didst not understand at the time." "But, Father, I could not have told him, even unwittingly, for I did not know it myself.
Swear that thou wilt not win me, and then depart and leave me forlorn. Daphnis. So help me Pan I would not leave thee, didst thou even choose to banish me! The Maiden. Dost thou build me bowers, and a house, and folds for flocks? Daphnis. Yea, bowers I build thee, the flocks I tend are fair. The Maiden. But to my grey old father, what tale, ah what, shall I tell? Daphnis.
Túr readily undertook to commit that crime, and, on the following day, at an interview with Irij, he said to him: "Why didst thou consent to be the ruler of Persia, and fail in showing a proper regard for the interests of thy elder brothers?
Thus he prayed, and then turning said unto Barachias, "Behold, brother, I charge thee, as the Apostle once adjured his people, 'Take heed unto thyself, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made thee king, to feed the Lord's people, whom he hath purchased with his own blood. And even as thou wast before me in the knowledge of God, and didst serve him with a pure conscience, so now also show the more zeal in pleasing him.
"Peace, Tuck," said he, "didst thou not promise me, ere thou camest here, that thou wouldst put a check upon thy tongue?" "Ay, marry," grumbled the other, "but 'a did not think to have a hard-footed knave trample all over my poor toes as though they were no more than so many acorns in the forest."
"We beseech Thee, O beloved and only Son of God, by the merits of Thy sacred Passion, Thy Cross and Thy Death, to deliver this Thy servant from the pains of Hell, and to lead him to that happy place whither Thou didst vouchsafe to lead the thief, who, with Thee, was bound upon the Cross: Thou, who art God, living and reigning with the Father and the Holy Ghost." "Amen," repeated those present.
As Thou didst save Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah out of the burning furnace, and Daniel out of the den of lions, so save me out of the hand of this foolish king, and make me to appear charming and graceful in his eyes. I entreat Thee to give ear to my prayer in this time of exile and banishment from our land.
"'Tis more than I could have dreamed. Didst ever see anything so beautiful before? It seems years ago since we were within convent walls!" "'Twill bring thy seeming nearer if thy lord proposes a speedy return to the cloister." "Nay, I would not go." "Ah, then, enjoy the present and think of moments and not cycles.
'Her fore-arms, dight with their bangles, show * Like fire ablaze on the waves a-flow; As by purest gold were the water girt, * And belted around by a living lowe. So I took her hand and pressed it and squeezed it." Said the woman, "Great God! Why didst thou this ill thing?
"Give me this gift of sympathy with suffering, though the cross be not mine own, but another's. "But give me firmness and authority: even as when thou didst say to the servants at Cana: 'Whatsoever He saith unto you, do it." The Prioress waited, with bowed head. Then, of a sudden she put forth her hand, and touched the marble foot of the Babe. "Give me tenderness," she said.
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