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It was all very fine, as were the royal feasts and festivals, but the Queen and Prince were happiest when they had left all this grandeur and parade behind them and were at Coburg amid their own kin for there, impatiently awaiting them, were the mother of Victoria and the brother of Albert, and "a staircase full of cousins," as the Queen says.
"Say farewell to jollity, conte!" cried Chevalier Mancini; "once drawn along by the rustling music of a woman's gown, no more such feasts as we have had to-night!" And he shook his head with tipsy melancholy. "By all the gods!" exclaimed Gualdro, "your news has surprised me! I should have thought you were the last man to give up liberty for the sake of a woman. ONE woman, too!
It all looked like one of those gigantic feasts which children conjure up in dreamland a feast served with the solemnity that attends a repast of grown-up folks a fairy transformation of the table to which their own parents sat down, and on which the horns of plenty of innumerable pastry-cooks and toy dealers had been emptied.
There are some of them down New Guinea way that eat the late-lamented himself, just by way of a last tidy up. Well, of all the funeral feasts on this earth, I suppose the one we are takin' is the queerest." "The strange thing is," said Mrs. Challenger, "that I find it impossible to feel grief for those who are gone. There are my father and mother at Bedford.
'This cream is quite up to the grub we get after a crack let-off in the Close, added Will; for requisitions for their voices at private concerts had made the choir connoisseurs in the relics of feasts. 'Better, I should say, returned Lance. 'Mettie doesn't make it of soap, or arsenic, or verdigris, like old Twopenny. 'What! you don't mean that she made it herself!
The remembrance of feasts once eaten is not only no solace to physical hunger, but adds unmitigated torment to it. It is different with the hunger of the heart, which finds a melancholy alleviation in feeding upon those shadows which reality has left. The food is bitter-sweet and the alleviation is not satisfaction, but neither is it starvation!
Up till now, Glory could always console herself with dreams of the "Snug Harbor" and the feasts some day to be enjoyed there. Alas! The colonel's words had changed all that. For her there would be no "Harbor," ever; but for him, her beloved grandpa, it was still possible. A great fear suddenly possessed her.
"The connection between the Christian and the Jewish feasts is both historical and ideal historical because our Lord's death happened on the 15th Nisan, the first day of the Jewish feast; ideal, because what took place had been prefigured in the Old Testament by types, of which itself was the antitype. Thus, Isaias calls Him the Lamb chosen by God, who bears the iniquities of others.
No women were admitted. They never are at Indian feasts. We may remark in passing that the word "medicine," as used among the North American Indians, has a very much wider signification than it has with us. It is an almost inexplicable word. When asked, they cannot give a full or satisfactory explanation of it themselves. In the general, we may say that whatever is mysterious is "medicine."
The first place in it is occupied by the gods Jupiter and Mars along with the duplicate of the latter, Quirinus. Among the other festivals those which related to the culture of corn and wine hold the first place, while the pastoral feasts play a subordinate part.
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