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Hither, in the course of my incumbency, came a great variety of visitors, principally Americans, but including almost every other nationality on earth, especially the distressed and downfallen ones like those of Poland and Hungary.
But one or two, who nourished in their bosoms respect for the downfallen hierarchy casting first a timorous glance around, to see that no one observed them hastily crossed themselves bent their knee to Sister Magdalen, by which name they saluted her kissed her hand, or even the hem of her dalmatique received with humility the Benedicite with which she repaid their obeisance; and then starting up, and again looking timidly round to see that they had been unobserved, hastily resumed their journey.
And the half-curtained recess, with the soiled and dog-eared documents of the law, was the evidence of how all this tragedy of a downfallen house had come about. Doom's eyes saw his fall upon the squalid pile. "Ay!" he said, "that's the ashes of Doom, all that's left of what we burned in fiery living and hot law-pleas. We have the ash and the others have warm hands."
Here in a stifled and dusky chamber I spent wearily four good years of my existence. Hither came a great variety of visitors, principally Americans, but including almost every other nationality, especially the distressed and downfallen ones.
The destined dauntless sacrificers, who would imbue your knives in senatorial, consular gore! kindle your altars on the downfallen Capitol! and build your temples on the wreck of Empire! Ha! do you start? and does some touch of shame redden the sallow cheeks that courage had left bloodless? and do ye grasp your daggers, and rear your drooping heads? are ye men, once again?
It would be impossible here to enumerate the thousand ways in which the Mission workers toil for the redemption of the downfallen, or to tell half the tale of their success. But all this work could not be so well carried on without the assistance of another important department.
"I'll tell you, girls," said Lucy Grey, "the old dowager will shine when she gets my bonnet on!" and trying it on over her chestnut curls, she added, "I half-wish I was a downfallen lady myself, a haberdasher's daughter from England! Oh, I hope I shall be a widow some time! Widows' caps are so becoming!"
I did not wait on ceremony, but looked over Tucker's shoulders, and to my astonishment and delight, there was, in plain figures, discount on Parker guns, 15 and 10 per cent. "How in thunder did I make such a mistake!" said Tucker, with a somewhat downfallen air. "We all do it," said I, anxious to help him out the best way I could.
"None," answered Benoni. "Roman citizens have rights, Jews what they can get. You can appeal to Caesar if you wish, as the jackal appealed to the lion. But if you are wise you will be content with half the carcase. Also I am not great; I am but an old merchant without authority." Caleb looked downfallen. "It seems that the days are hard for us Jews," he said.
Farfrae was Mayor the two-hundredth odd of a series forming an elective dynasty dating back to the days of Charles I and the fair Lucetta was the courted of the town....But, Ah! the worm i' the bud Henchard; what he could tell! The bell-ringing and the band-playing, loud as Tamerlane's trumpet, goaded the downfallen Henchard indescribably: the ousting now seemed to him to be complete.
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