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Sinon likewise opened a secret door that was in the great horse and the chiefs issued forth therefrom and opened the gates of the city, slaying those that kept watch. Meanwhile there came a vision to Æneas, who now, Hector being dead, was the chief hope and stay of the men of Troy.
Let us learn how the love of Christ, received into the heart, triumphs gradually but surely over all sin, transforms character, turning even its weakness into strength, and so, from the depths of transgression and very gates of hell, raises men to God. To us all this divine message speaks. Christ's love is extended to us; no sin can stay it; no fall of ours can make Him despair.
Then Waldron, wheeling the chair himself, took his friend Hackett away as carefully as if he were convoying a baby. Julius, after seeing the party through the gates, went back to his college rooms, his wits busy with the task which so took hold of his fancy. Julius would have enjoyed scheming involvedly, but Waldron had been too peremptory about that to allow of a particle of intrigue.
The mediæval townsman rarely trusted himself very far outside the city gates, and our enterprising marauders, whom to outward view seemed stalwart enough to stand great fatigue, proved so soft under the hot sun along the shadeless road that by the time they reached Breckenheim, barely six leagues from Frankfort, there was a mopping of brows and a general feeling that the limit of endurance had been reached.
The functions of highwayman and magistrate were combined in one individual. By degrees, the class of freemen, artisans, traders, and the like, becoming the more numerous, built stronger and better houses outside the castle gates of the "land's master" or the burghs of the more powerful nobles. The superiors, anxious to increase their own importance, favored the progress of the little boroughs.
Munich itself opened its gates to the invincible monarch, and the fugitive Palatine, Frederick V., in the forsaken residence of his rival, consoled himself for a time for the loss of his dominions. While Gustavus Adolphus was extending his conquests in the south, his generals and allies were gaining similar triumphs in the other provinces.
He was a round-faced, respectable appearing fellow, but his mood was distinctly unsociable. "Want to see Tom Gates, eh? Well! what for?" he demanded. "We wish to talk with him," answered Kenneth. "Talk! what's the good? You're no friend of Tom Gates. I can't be bothered this way, anyhow." "I am Kenneth Forbes, of Elmhurst.
But he must have been a very noble fellow. That struggle under the water must have been fearful; one can see that by the way the blood has been drawn from the extremities. It makes the idea of the Stigmata possible to look at him. Resolution like this could, you would think, do anything in the world. Ay! it might almost unbar the gates of Heaven.
They were rapidly approaching the gates, and a crowd of little darkies were holding them open on each side. "I wish Arthur were here," said he. "How long he has been away! I associate him with every object about the place." Alice did not answer; Arthur was in her thoughts. This was his home, every object with which she was surrounded breathed of him.
The water in the sea is higher than it is in the canal, and there are two sets of gates, at a little distance from each other, near the mouth of the canal, which keep the water of the sea from flowing in." "Yes," said Rollo, "I can picture that to my mind. But how far apart are the two sets of gates?" "A little farther apart," said Mr. George, "than the length of the longest ship.
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