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That blossoming of life in womanhood at eighteen! there was no other thing under the sun like it to him. It was like the budding of the trees in spring; the blossoming of flowers in the early morning; the odor of roses and dew, the color of bright waters and clear jewels. He could not be faithless to that. He could not get away from it.
Your portrait and your letters are always under my eyes. "I am nothing without you. I can scarcely understand how I have lived without knowing you. Ah, Josephine, if you know my heart, could you remain without writing from the 29th of May to the 16th of June, and not travel hither? Have you lent an ear to faithless friends, who wish to keep you away from me?
I only know that, at the expiration of a certain time, three of us were sitting by the open window, in a softened and subdued frame of mind, considerately turning our backs upon the other two, who were bidding each other farewell at the farther end of the room. It was the faithless Johann, as I gathered, who was responsible for this catastrophe.
Outliving his mighty Empire, girt around by a thousand miles of imprisoning ocean, guarded by his most steadfast enemies, his son a captive at the Court of the Hapsburgs, and his Empress openly faithless, he sinks from sight like some battered derelict. And Nature is more pitiless than man. The Governor urges on him the best medical advice: but he will have none of it.
When Jesus Christ was on earth, it is recorded, 'He could there do no mighty works because of their unbelief, save that He laid His hands on a few sick folk and healed them. A faithless Church, a worldly Church, a lazy Church, an unspiritual Church, an un-Christlike Church which, to a large extent, is the designation of the so-called Church of to day can clog His chariot-wheels, can thwart the work, can hamper the Divine Worker.
He has a fine mind and a brilliant imagination; but he is chilled, imbittered, and fettered by being constantly reminded of his weakness and dependence; and now positive unhappiness is added to his other misfortunes, although I think my little note will do him no harm" she dreamed that it might be carried next to his heart instead of mouldering where the faithless Jotham had dropped it.
To strangers she talked rationally, and with her usual grace and perspicuity, but every one observed that her cheerfulness was gone, and the current report went, by whatever means it got abroad, that Jane Sinclair's heart was broken that Charles Osborne proved faithless and that the beautiful Fawn of Springvale was subject to occasional derangement.
Oh, no; how ridiculous it is! it reminds one of the statue of Diana! Yet this Ione is handsome, eh? 'So the men say; but then she is rich: she is to marry the Athenian I wish her joy. He will not be long faithful, I suspect; those foreigners are very faithless. 'Oh, Julia! said Fulvia, as the merchant's daughter joined them; 'have you seen the tiger yet? 'No!
"Reach hither thy finger," He said to the doubter whose faith had well-nigh died for loss of a few days' open vision, "Reach hither thy finger and behold My hands and reach hither thy hand and thrust it into My side and be not faithless but believing." The spirit of St. Thomas comes upon us all at times, perhaps more often in youth than age.
Among their other failures, they fortified a post in Attica, Lipsydrium, above Mt. Parnes, and were there joined by some partisans from the city; but they were besieged by the tyrants and reduced to surrender. After this disaster the following became a popular drinking song: Ah! Lipsydrium, faithless friend! Lo, what heroes to death didst send, Nobly born and great in deed!
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