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Here the Madonna appears as the queen of the heavenly host, in a brilliant glory of countless angel-heads, standing on the clouds, with the eternal Son in her arms; S. Sixtus and S. Barbara kneel at the sides. Both of them seem to connect the picture with the real spectators. This is a rare example of a picture of Raphael's later time, executed entirely by his own hand.
Dear uncle and aunt, it is sad to be parting you all, at my early age; but we must all die some day or another. A few hours more and I will breathe my last, and on English soil. Oh, that I could be buried in Ireland! What a happiness it would be to all my friends, and to myself where my countrymen could kneel on my grave.
"You'd better fix bayonets," says the sergeant; "come, get 'em on." We stop while we adjust weapon to weapon and then run to overtake the rest. We go down; we go up; we mark time; we go forward like the others. We are no longer in the trench. "Get your heads down kneel!" We stop and go on our knees. A star-shell pierces us with its intolerable gaze.
During this time I spent much of it in training Black Bess, as I found her to be a very intelligent animal, and she would follow me like a dog wherever I would go when she had the saddle on, and during that winter I taught her to perform many tricks, such as to lie down, kneel down, count ten, and tell her age.
"A servant of my lady, Dona Teresa Panza," replied the page; and suiting the action to the word he flung himself off his horse, and with great humility advanced to kneel before the lady Teresa, saying, "Let me kiss your hand, Senora Dona Teresa, as the lawful and only wife of Senor Don Sancho Panza, rightful governor of the island of Barataria."
With this measured pace and in this guise he advanced to kneel before the duke, who, with the others, awaited him standing. The duke, however, would not on any account allow him to speak until he had risen.
"We must try and make Indiana learn to say her prayers; she sits quite still, and seems to take no notice of what we are doing when we kneel down, before we go to bed," observed Hector.
"Then," I said, "we had better kneel down and pray about it." We did so. In his prayer he entreated very earnestly that the scales might fall from his eyes, and that these truths which he loved when he was young might be brought to him again. He was only praying for truth, and not for pardon and salvation; so I pointed this out to him. "Yes yes," he said; "Lord, save me! Lord, save me! Pardon me!"
"Put it on this table." Briar did so. "Kneel down, Briar, so that the light from the candle falls full on your face." Briar knelt. Her eyes were beaming with happiness. "Look at me," said Pauline. Briar raised two honest and pretty brown eyes to her sister's face. "I think," said Pauline slowly, "that you are the sort of girl to make a promise a solemn, awfully solemn promise and stick to it."
"Well," replied Wildrake, "and if I do pull off my castor and kneel, is it not seemly to show the same respects in a church which we offer in a palace? It is a dainty matter, is it not, to see your Anabaptists, and Brownists, and the rest of you, gather to a sermon with as little ceremony as hogs to a trough! But here comes food, and now for a grace, if I can remember one."
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