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Allworthy was almost as much shocked at this discovery as Partridge himself had been while he related it. "Good heavens!" says he, "in what miserable distresses do vice and imprudence involve men! How much beyond our designs are the effects of wickedness sometimes carried!" He had scarce uttered these words, when Mrs Waters came hastily and abruptly into the room.
And thus Hermes becomes the spirit of the movement of the sky or firmament; not merely the fast flying of the transitory cloud, but the great motion of the heavens and stars themselves. Thus, in his highest power, he corresponds to the "primo mobile" of the later Italian philosophy, and, in his simplest, is the guide of all mysterious and cloudy movement, and of all successful subtleties.
My observations were at first merely general; by degrees they became particular. I was not satisfied with enjoying these sights myself; I made my friends and neighbours sharers in my pleasure; and some of them enjoyed the wonders of the heavens as much as I did.
"Did Enrica ever speak to you of her engagement to Count Marescotti?" she asked. She grew impatient, and must probe the wound. "Never," he answered, shrinking back. "Heavens! What falseness! Why, she has passed days and days alone with him." "No, not alone," interrupted Nobili, stung with a sense of his own shame. "Oh, you excuse her!" Nera laughed bitterly. "Poor count, believe me.
"But, uncle, he is nothing to me; the gentleman is nothing to me!" "By the heavens above us, he shall be something, or I will know the reason why! What! he has gone off with you; he has travelled through the country with you, hiding you from your only natural friend; he has been your companion for weeks " "Six days, sir," said I. "Sir!" said the baronet, again giving me the lie.
Other people, and other scenery. A radical change again. Heavens knows how soon I can forget this little white cold town...." "Yes," she continued, looking at me, "yes, this cold town, with you; and you with your double-crossings, with your reports on me, with your bad behavior, with your treason. Alex love is a strange thing. I don't mind it at all! You never knew it.
If I ever thought I could change the conviction of a French peasant, I don't think so since I have lived among them. I spent several days last summer trying to convince Père that the sun did not go round the earth. I drew charts of the heavens, you should have seen them and explained the solar system.
"Good heavens, Viv!" he cried uncomfortably. "I I had no idea you cared " "Cared!" she cried, as he paused. "I don't care two pins for you in that way. But I would have married you, just the same, because you are worth marrying. I'd very much rather have you for a husband than any man I know, but as for loving you! Pooh!
"No, by Heavens!" said Hereward suddenly; "the Duke of Bouillon shall come with no more knights than may be a reasonable guard, should treachery be offered to the Countess of Paris."
What doleful misereres must first ascend to cloud the brightness of the heavens and dim the joy of the blest! Long, long before then, your and my remembrance, Faith, will have perished from the earth.
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