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First, as a most respectable chaperon for you, and, secondly, as a most indubitable witness of the fall of Lady Vincent." "Good! good! I see! To-night, then, she shall be cast down from her proud pedestal. And to-morrow " "To-morrow she shall be dismissed from the castle." "But then I shall have to go, too. I could not stay the world would talk." "No, Faustina, you shall not go.
But Conscience told herself that her duty lay less in defense of the man whom she had once loved and who had fallen from his pedestal than in the square facing of present facts. Her husband had alluded to Stuart with neither rancor nor resentment but in kindliness and fair judgment.
"Well," he said, "I am glad there is no worse harm done. You had better defer your statueship till we can find you a sounder pedestal, Lady Caergwent." "Oh! call me Kate," whispered she in his ear, turning redder than the fright had made her.
Peter's church: it is without hieroglyphics; and, with the cross and pedestal, measures 126 feet in height. It is the only one in Rome which has remained entire. Its weight is estimated at 10,000 cwt. Claudius had two obelisks brought from Egypt, which stood before the entrance of the Mausoleum of Augustus, and one of which was restored in 1567, and placed near the church of Santa Maria Maggiore.
"What are you doing," he said, looking first at his daughter, whose terror nailed her to the floor, and then at the young man, who had hastily sprung up, though his attitude beside the pedestal was sufficiently significant. The rattle of the gold upon the ground was horrible, the scattering of it prophetic. "I could not be mistaken," said Balthazar, sitting down; "I heard the sound of gold."
During all my early years our old Harvard Alma Mater sat still and lifeless as the colossi in the Egyptian desert. Then all at once, like the statue in Don Giovanni, she moved from her pedestal. The fall of that "stony foot" has effected a miracle like the harp that Orpheus played, like the teeth which Cadmus sowed.
The main thing to do, the thing that every patriotic man ought to work for, is to break down the present One Old Man system of government in this country. The bane of Great Britain is that we are such hero-worshippers by nature that we can only believe in one man at a time. We get hold of a Palmerston or a Gladstone, and set him on a pedestal, and think that everybody else is a pygmy.
The idol has come sliding down its pedestal to fawn and grovel with all the other infatuates in the dust about my feet." The Duke looked thoughtfully at her. "I thought," he said, "that you revelled in your power over men's hearts. I had always heard that you lived for admiration." "Oh," said Zuleika, "of course I like being admired. Oh yes, I like all that very much indeed.
Successively a feudal manor, a royal domain, a cloister, and the site of unrealized projects of the later monarchs of France, religion, ambition, sorrow and glory have there at different times sought a refuge or a pedestal. The Trocadéro occupies a part of the site of the ancient village of Chaillot, whose existence can be traced back to the eleventh century.
With his left hand he politely took off his old-fashioned top-hat; with his right he caught Prince Saradine so ringing a crack across the face that the white top hat rolled down the steps and one of the blue flower-pots rocked upon its pedestal. The prince, whatever he was, was evidently not a coward; he sprang at his enemy's throat and almost bore him backwards to the grass.
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