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'He is painting a large picture for next season's exhibition, she informed me. 'I was not allowed to see it or to know anything about it, but he declares it will bring Simla down. 'I hope not, I said, piously. 'Oh, I hope so. I have told him, Dora continued, slowly, 'that a great deal depends on it. 'Here is Mrs. Symons, I was able to return, 'and I am afraid she is looking for you.
It seemed as if born for the words of the “Harzreise”: “With the dim burning torch thou lightest for him the ferries at night over bottomless paths, across desolate fields.” In mournful thirds, receding again and again, the voices sank to earth; just one remained on high, alone, piously dissociated from profane return.
I do not think you Americans, Miss Effingham, at the head of civilisation, certainly, as so many of your own people fancy; nor yet at the bottom, as so many of those of Mademoiselle Viefville and Mr. Sharp so piously believe." "And what are the notions of the countrymen of Mr. Blunt, on the subject?" "As far from the truth, perhaps, as any other.
"Yes, for always love begets truthfulness." "I pray it may beget between us utter truthfulness, and nothing else, King Jurgen." "Not 'Jurgen' now, but 'love'." "Indeed, they tell that even so, in such deep darkness, Love came to his sweetheart Psyche." "Then why do you complain because I piously emulate the Gods, and offer unto Love the sincerest form of flattery?"
And thou, young sir," to Walter Mildemay, "art thou escaped from the Tower also?" "Nay, sir; I am but accessory to their flight," replied the young man. "The saints preserve us!" ejaculated his lordship piously. "Now Heaven send the Dons soon else I shall have such a storm about mine ears as never wind did raise." At this moment an old sailor burst into the midst of the group.
Others, emulating the laughing people on the big boat, put their pieces of ice into their mouths, but not for long at a time, as the intense cold made their teeth ache; while still others piously crossed themselves and refused to have aught to do with so manifest an invention of the Evil One.
"I thank the Lord," says her husband piously, "that more work gets put on me than I can keep pace with. And well it is, when a man's wife takes to wagering and betting and pulling in low boat-races to the disgrace of her sex. Someone must keep the roof over our heads: but the end may come sooner than you expect," says he, and winds up with a tolerable imitation of a hacking cough.
They made a little feast as well as they could for the beautiful hunted creature, with abundance of waxlights. And at last the clergy bethought themselves of a remedy for this evil time. The body of one of the patron saints had lain neglected somewhere under the flagstones of the sanctuary. This must be piously exhumed, and provided with a shrine worthy of it.
Caligula not only hastened to set out in person to gather up the bones of Agrippina, his mother, and of his brother, in order to bring them to Rome and deposit them piously in the tomb of Augustus, that was a natural duty of filial piety, but he also prohibited any one to name among his ancestors the great Agrippa, the builder of the Pantheon, because his very obscure origin seemed a blot upon the semi-divine purity of his race.
"The Virgin forbid," answered Victorine, piously, racking her brains meanwhile for a ready escape from this dilemma, and trying in her fright to recall precisely what she had just said. "I said not that he told it to me in the garden; it was in the confessional that he said it.
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