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The mad mixture of Russia and the Crusades, of the Hippodrome and the Renaissance, drove him for refuge into the fascinating Church of St. Pantaleon near by. Martyrs, murderers, Caesars, saints and assassins half in glass and half in telegram; chaos of time, place, morals, forces and motive gave him vertigo. Had one sat all one's life on the steps of Ara Coeli for this?
And these other two: Croesus, having caused a gentleman, the favourite of his brother Pantaleon, to be seized, carried him into a fuller's shop, where he caused him to be scratched and carded with the cards and combs belonging to that trade, till he died.
A man who took part in this ceremony wrote that a multitude of men were present in uniform, and that the oath was administered by Gen. Pantaleón García. There is no reason for believing that this is a complete statement of sandatahan organized in Manila by the end of January, and yet this statement gives a force of at least 6330 men.
There are other alignements in Brittany, of which the most important is that of Erdeven, comprising 1129 stones arranged in ten lines. Outside Brittany alignements are unusual, but a fine example, now ruined, is said to have existed at Saint Pantaléon north of Autun. In the fields around it are found large quantities of polished stone axes with knives, scrapers, and arrow-heads of flint.
To three of these the protector granted a pardon; but no entreaties of the several ambassadors could prevail in favour of Pantaleon. It was the very day on which his brother, perhaps to propitiate the protector, had signed the treaty between the two nations. These executions had been preceded by one of a very different description.
Nay, Sir Willmott Burrell, never dare to knit your brows. Justice, sir, justice to the uttermost, is what I desire in this country! Dost remember the fate of Don Pantaleon Sa, the Portugal ambassador's brother a knight of Malta, and a person eminent in many great actions?
About five o'clock in the afternoon we were together in the sitting-room on the first floor, looking down on the street from the window, when a well-appointed carriage with a gentleman and two young ladies in it drew up before the door. "Oh, Richard," exclaimed Paquita in the greatest excitement, "it is Don Pantaleon Villaverde with his daughters, and they are getting out!" "Who is Villaverde?"
General Pantaleon Garcia was the only one who at such a critical moment was at his post in Maypajo, north of Manila, Generals Noriel, Rizal and Ricarte and Colonels San Miguel, Cailles and others being away enjoying their leave. General Otis, according to trustworthy information, telegraphed to Washington stating that the Filipinos had attacked the American Army.
She provided it with an engraved portrait of that Holy Nail which was venerated in the neighboring church of San Pantaleon; and she apparently aimed to supply it with playthings of a religious and saving character like that piece of ivory, which resembled a small torso, and which Bettina described as "A bit of the Lord, Signor," and it was, in fact, a fragment of an ivory crucifix, which she had somewhere picked up.
But, the devil having given him a hint of the danger he ran of being taken for an ordinary man, for a saint, a Boniface or a Pantaléon, he interrupted this harmony of love by a shriek in which the thousand voices of hell joined. Earth lauded, heaven condemned. The church trembled on its ancient foundations. "Te Deum laudamus!" sang the crowd. "Go to the devil, brute beasts that you are!
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