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At last he impatiently laid aside his instruments, his waxed tablet and style, and desired the gate-keeper the father of poor little Philo whose duty it was to attend at night on the astrologers on the tower, to carry down all his paraphernalia, as the heavens were not this evening favorable to his labors.
Leopold hung his head. "God needs no making up to him," the gate-keeper went on "so far from it that he takes our sins on himself, that he may clear them out of the universe. How could he say he took our sins upon him, if he could not make amends for them to those they had hurt?" "Ah!" cried Leopold, with a profound sigh, " if that could be! if he could really do that!"
'I am a stranger here, answered the young king, 'and very poor. I have come to beg for some work. 'We have everybody we want, said the queen, when the servant told her the young man's reply. 'We have a gate-keeper, and a hall porter, and servants of all sorts in the palace; the only person we have not got is a goose-boy.
"A pretty residence for an Emperor," sighed Titianus, shrugging his shoulders, but stopping the lictor, who had raised his fasces to cut the ropes. "It is not so bad as it looks," said the architect positively. "Gate- keeper! hi, gate-keeper! Where is the lazy fellow hiding himself?"
Meanwhile the gate-keeper had opened the door, and with him a tall young priest stepped out into the open air to ask the will of the intruders. Paaker would have seized the opportunity of speaking, but the lady in the chariot interposed and said: "I am Bent-Anat, the daughter of the King, and this lady in the litter is Nefert, the wife of the noble Mena, the charioteer of my father.
This he unstrapped and slipped into his knapsack, presently joining Hermia, who was making her peace with the gate-keeper. "Two tires, one wheel the speedometer," she was saying in French. "I will leave them for you to sell, Madame, if you can. And Monsieur he may have whatever else is left. That is understood between you, and these gentlemen will bear witness.
It was Ormsby's message from Breezeland; and while Kent was trying to grasp the tremendous import of it, M'Tosh was giving Callahan the signal to go. Kent sprang past the gate-keeper and gave the square of damp paper to the train-master. "My God! read that!" he gasped, with a dry sob of excitement. "It was our chance one chance in a million and we've lost it!" M'Tosh was a man for a crisis.
But, instead of arriving on the evening of the 27th, the Emperor had traveled with such speed, that, on the 26th at ten o'clock in the morning, he was at the gates of the palace of Fontainebleau; and consequently, with the exception of the grand marshal, a courier, and the gate-keeper of Fontainebleau, he found no one to receive him on his descent from the carriage.
I looked at her with the greatest pleasure, and her eyes rested upon me as if we had been old acquaintances. "How did you find your bed?" she asked. "Very comfortable; I am sure you made it. Pray, who are you?" "I am Lucie, the daughter of the gate-keeper: I have neither brothers nor sisters, and I am fourteen years old.
Then, without any further delay, she set out towards the temple gate, which, in obedience to the commands of the high priest, was now locked. The gate-keeper little Philo's father sat close by on a stone bench, keeping guard.
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