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Then my eyes cleared, and I saw, on the very spot where d'Aurelle had died, another body or was it the same, brought back that the tragedy of the afternoon might, in some mysterious way, be re-enacted? I remember bending over and peering into the face It was the face of Philip Vantine. A minute must have passed as I stood there dazed and shaken.
The tale of David and Saul would infallibly be re-enacted; once more we shall have two kings in the land, the latent and the patent; and the house of the first will become once more the resort of "every one that is in distress, and every one that is in debt, and every one that is discontented."
He attempts to forget his anxiety about his daughter who he fears, with only too much reason, has come to an untimely end by going to sleep in a highly uncomfortable position on a kitchen-chair. The Murder is re-enacted in a vision, in dumb-show. The form of MARIA appears in the tweed suit, and urges him to search for her remains in the Red Barn.
The aristocracy and the masses being thus, from a variety of causes, in this agitated and dangerous condition, what were the measures of the government? The edict of 1550 had been re-enacted immediately after Philip's accession to sovereignty.
He was gone nearly all day in the hills; yet when evening came he sought the place where Pierre had seen him the night before, and the same weird scene was re-enacted. And again in the night the clicking sound went on; and every night it was renewed. Pierre grew stronger, and could, with difficulty, stand upon his feet. One night he crept out, and made his way softly, slowly towards the sound.
There were hopes of relief under Jackson, but in the confusion of party issues, and with the tariff supported by the consolidated strength of the manufacturers a consolidation powerful enough to make Webster its spokesman in Congress; a consolidation as definite and resolute as that of the slave-holders, and destined to be far longer-lived, no change in legislation came till 1832, and then the change was immaterial; the "tariff of abominations" was substantially re-enacted.
But intelligence of the restoration was speedily conveyed to Sir Peregrine Maitland, who again despatched the same emissary, and the drama of demolition was re-enacted. The landlord of the Pavilion then gave up the contest, so far as any attempt at reconstruction was concerned, and proceeded to obtain redress by due course of law.
Thereupon he went up to the merchant, and laid his right fore-paw upon his knee. 'Welcome, welcome, old boy! cried the merchant with emotion. He was moved in like manner every morning, when this little scene was re-enacted. 'Why, you can't call Trofast old, father, said Waldemar, with a little tone of superiority. 'Indeed! Do you know that he will soon be eight?
It could not be known at all unless something were known about it, so that it might not pass, as otherwise it would, for a mere ingredient of present sentience. It is precisely by virtue of this adventitious element that the re-enacted feeling takes its place in nature and becomes an object of knowledge. Science furnishes this setting; the jewel precious or false must be supplied by imagination.
The story of the Prodigal Son came into his mind, and he knew that the Master's parable was being re-enacted in his own life there in the midst of the northern forest. "I am the prodigal son," he murmured. "I have wandered far from my Father, and have been feeding upon the husks.
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