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"Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbour's creed hath lent." The words had come to his lips, and were pronounced, were addressed to his mental image of the Cardinal, without any conscious act of volition on his part. He heard them with a sort of surprise, almost as if some one else had spoken them.

Besides, it was too late, he could not recoil at the last moment, and if when he pronounced the last solemn vow he felt a secret terror, an indeterminate but immense regret agitating him, he forgot everything, saving a divine reward for his efforts on the day when he afforded his mother the great and long-expected joy of hearing him say his first mass.

Next day he produced “A Letter written to a Provincial by one of his friends.” The Letter was unanimously pronounced exactly what was required, and ordered to be printed. It appeared on the 23d January 1656; and a second followed six days later. Nothing could have been happier or more admirably suited for their purpose than those Letters.

The marshal recalled his services to the Emperor, and ended with these words, pronounced in tones still strong and firm: "I do not say this to interest you in my family; I do not need to recommend to you my wife and children.

The following extract is from the letter of a layman residing in the last-mentioned colony: "At present, we are pronounced to be in a diocese, whilst the head of that diocese is living nearly 1200 miles away, and has never been here, and, in all probability never will be."

Prowling around this excellent protection was a lion, who was pronounced by my hunters to be the mate of the lioness which I had killed; it was declared that the disconsolate husband had followed the course of his wife's body, denoted by the drops of blood that had dripped upon the ground when carried by the camel towards the camp.

No, not for ever, might she too but keep her part in Him Who is the Resurrection and the Life might she be found acceptable in His sight, and receive the blessing to be pronounced to all that love and fear Him. It was over: they all stood round for a few minutes. At last Mr.

But in one way only will I punish this ignorant town, and that is by not raining upon it, nor on any part of its district or territory, for three whole years, to be reckoned from the day and moment when this threat is pronounced. Thou free, thou cured, thou in thy senses! and I mad, I disordered, I bound! I will as soon think of sending rain as of hanging myself.

"I mean that it would be better for you if you had never seen me." "Mr. North!" Terrified at the wild gleam in his eyes, she had risen hastily. "You are talking very strangely." "Oh, don't be alarmed, madam. I am not drunk!" he pronounced the word with a fierce energy. "I had better leave you. Indeed, I think the less we see of each other the better."

I attended one quarter-sessions at which a number of natives were tried on a great variety of charges. Several of them were induced to plead guilty, and on this admission of their having committed the crime sentence was pronounced upon them.