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You have disenthroned Force, and placed on her high seat Intelligence; and the necessary consequence of this great revolution is, that it has become the duty and the delight equally of every citizen to cultivate his faculties.
Was it because she was too proud? or had the sun of royal favor kissed away her tears? Barbarina's tears had ceased to flow, but she smiled rarely. She had the grace and imposing beauty of the Roman, and never forgot that she was a daughter of that proud nation who had ruled the world, and, even though disenthroned, preserved her majesty and renown.
No other than these simple words were possible to her; and even these were too much for her in a state of emotion where her proud secrecy was disenthroned: as the child-like sentences fell from her lips they re-acted on her like a picture of her own helplessness, and she could not check the sob which sent the large tears to her eyes.
Then he unshipped one of the lines and tied it around a sapling, stroked the horse's heads, and succeeded in quieting them down. Going back to the road, he discerned Colonel Harrington sitting up rubbing his head and staring about abstractedly. Farther away was a flying excited figure. Bart recognized the disenthroned cabman. They met where the colonel sat.
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