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The festival being disturbed by the alarm thus caused, the sorrowing parents of the maidens retired, complaining of the violated compact of hospitality, and invoking the god, to whose solemn festival and games they had come, having been deceived by the pretence of religion and good faith. Nor did the maidens entertain better hopes for themselves, or feel less indignation.
"Yet," protested this person with retiring assertiveness, "the expressed object of the ceremony, as it stood before my intelligence, was for the set purpose of invoking spirits and raising certain visions."
'He who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of Truth. That phrase of blessing oneself in, which is a frequent Old Testament expression, is roughly equivalent to invoking, and therefore receiving, blessing from.
Bouvard kept in the background, and Pécuchet, turning his back to him, cast handfuls of sulphur into the fireplace. Before invoking a corpse the consent of the demons is required. Now, this day being a Friday a day which is assigned to Béchet they should occupy themselves with Béchet first of all.
"Ah," drawled Ruthven, "I may do the same the next time my wife spends the evening in your apartment." "You lie," said Selwyn in a voice made low by surprise. "Oh, no, I don't. Very chivalrous of you quite proper for you to deny it like a gentleman but useless, quite useless. So the less said about invoking the law, the better for some people.
The skilled orator, playing on old feelings, using familiar terms, and invoking familiar ideas, finds a crowd quite plastic to his hands. It is for these reasons that there is so keen a struggle with political and social parties for a monopoly of good rallying cries, and a readiness to fix objectionable titles on their opponents.
After this I have but one more." He advanced, invoking his guardian spirit to aid him. "Once," said he, "I dreamed that, being sorely pressed, I came to a large lake, on the shore of which was a canoe, partly out of water, and having ten paddles all in readiness. Do not fear," he cried, "we shall soon get to it." It happened as he had said.
No doubt she imagined herself a prisoner, and seeing the boys below, she had waved her handkerchief to them, and also had made gestures with her hands as though invoking their aid. Of course Frank assured Gilbert that when they came up to take supper with his uncle not a word would be said on that painful subject.
At the worst she could but snub him, and the chances were, he thought, greatly in favour of her accepting his offer of help. For from her character he judged she was not a girl to make a stronger appeal to him than the casual invoking of his assistance which had already taken place.
So he went back to the road, mounted his horse, and rode on without vouchsafing a word of farewell to the woman who was invoking destruction upon his head. As he did so his eyes again rested on the stern face of Nemesis, and the wheel whose turning determined the destiny of men at her feet.
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