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We must all know many a sorry scrub who has fairly talked himself into the belief that nothing but his intellectual difficulties prevents him from being another St. Francis. We think we could suggest a few score of other obstacles.
Brandon was going on in the same uninteresting manner, but with no apparent jar to prevent its leading to matrimony at last, Jane was surprised by the sight of her cousin Francis, who said he had come to the metropolis, chiefly for the purpose of seeing her.
The final project, which destroyed all except three of the spiritual principalities and all except six of the free cities, was proposed by France on February 23, 1803, and accepted by the Emperor Francis on April 27.
"Gentlemen," said Sir Francis, in his usual bland tone, "you are welcome." "Sir Francis," said Mr. Chillingworth, "I have come upon matters of some importance; may I crave a separate audience?"
Magdalen, and because here St. Francis' Magdalen spent long hours in tears and prayer. On the evening in question Alvira had remained longer than usual to commune with Almighty God. It was a festival day, and her soul felt all the glow of fervor and spiritual joy which at times wraps the pious spirit into foretastes of celestial happiness.
Francis is not as dark as he's painted. He's the most lied-about prince in Europe," remarked Chauvenet. "He would most certainly be an improvement on Charles Louis. But alas! Charles Louis will undoubtedly live on forever, like his lamented father. The King is dead: long live the King!" "Nothing can happen," remarked the German sadly. "I have lost much money betting on upheavals in that direction.
Sir Francis gasped his admiration of the daring offer. "That's pluck!" he exclaimed. "Well, what do you say? Are you agreeable, for one?" "Certainly certainly!" "Then will you bring St Aubyn and Carleton-Wingate here, and get their consent? Say to-morrow morning?" "That's very short notice." "You can get them on the telephone.
Her husband, Bernardone, was absent at the time on a business tour in France. Upon his return, he was delighted at finding that he had a boy; and he insisted on giving him the surname Francis, in commemoration of that country with which he drove such a flourishing trade. Possibly he was also moved by the thought albeit the chroniclers do not say so that his wife's family came from Southern France.
It will be remembered that Maude was niece to Sir Francis, and was at the present time living in the same house with him. "Cecilia," she said, "what is this that has happened?" "He has told you then?" "What is it? He has told us all that you have quarrelled, and now he has gone away." "Thank God for that!" "Yes; he has gone. But he told us only just as he went.
Francis, in which he founded the Franciscan order of monks, and in which he died, and is a veritable Mecca, to which pilgrimages are made from all parts of the Roman Catholic world.
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