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We may assure ourselves, that when he accepted the government of Bithynia, there were no general laws or decrees of the senate in force against the Christians; that neither Trajan nor any of his virtuous predecessors, whose edicts were received into the civil and criminal jurisprudence, had publicly declared their intentions concerning the new sect; and that whatever proceedings had been carried on against the Christians, there were none of sufficient weight and authority to establish a precedent for the conduct of a Roman magistrate.
At length, as the doctor, growing impatient, redoubled his mute questionings, Rodin advanced with a stride, stretched forward his crooked neck, and said, in a loud voice: "What is your pleasure, doctor?" These words, which completely disconcerted Baleinier, broke the silence which had reigned for some seconds, and the magistrate turned round.
Under these judges were numerous freedmen of the emperor, and clerks entrusted with affairs of greater and less weight. Of the native magistrates the chief were the keeper of the records, the police judge, the prefect of the night, and the Exegetes, or interpreter of the Egyptian law, who was allowed to wear a purple robe like a Roman magistrate.
The nation needed one more terrible lesson. It has it in the murder of its beloved chief magistrate and the attempted assassination of its honored prime minister, the two men of all others prepared to go farthest to smooth the way of defeated rebellion back to allegiance. Even now the lesson of these terrible events seems but half learned.
The local magistrate was able to answer one or two simpler questions, but for the most part he could only shrug his shoulders in helplessness. Nothing had been seen or heard that was at all unusual during the night in the rectory. When the old housekeeper was called up she could say nothing more than this.
"The party was followed from near Wrotham," went on the magistrate. "The priest was with them then; and, we suppose, entered the house." "You suppose!" snapped the other. "What the devil do you mean by supposing? You have looked everywhere and cannot find him?" The magistrate shrugged his shoulders deprecatingly, as he stood and stared at the angry man. "And the roofs?" added Mr.
The burgomaster did not at first see the pleasantry; he was only led to perceive it by the self satisfied mien of Dagobert, and by his inquiring glance, which seemed to say: "Is it not good, eh? I am astonished at it myself." The magistrate began, therefore, to smile with a patronizing air, and, nodding his head, replied in the same jocular spirit: "Ha! Ha! Ha!
"You will, then, come on Saturday?" "Yes, since Madame de Morcerf invites me." "You are very kind." "Will M. Danglars be there?" "He has already been invited by my father. "'Never despair of anything, says the proverb." * Magistrate and orator of great eloquence chancellor of France under Louis XV. "Do you dance, count?" "I dance?" "Yes, you; it would not be astonishing."
John Lapussa's special influence, that he had obtained the coveted appointment and so get him to renounce all further claims upon his old patron. On the very same day Mr. John was surprised to receive a visit from the magistrate, Mr. Monori, and this certainly was a wonder, for the magistrate never made any but official visits. "To what do I owe this extraordinary pleasure?" asked Mr.
The wife retained full control of her own property; the barbarity of admitting an action for restitution of conjugal rights was impossible, divorce was a private transaction to which the wife was as fully entitled as the husband, and it required no inquisitorial intervention of magistrate or court; Augustus ordained, indeed, that a public declaration was necessary, but the divorce itself was a private legal act of the two persons concerned.
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