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Look, also, at the able and larned Irishman who stands at the head of the University of that same methropolis of the West, and whose eloquence so mystifies his faithlessness to Ireland as to confuse you, and almost lade you captive, until, on cooler deliberation, you find that his response to 'the toast of the evenin, is naither more nor less than a superb burst of oratory, robed in green and goold, but with a heart as purely English as that which throbbed within the breast of the renegade Wellington or the late wily Lord Palmerston.
I saw the fleshless jaws clamp, then opened to speak. Abruptly, upon the skeletons in front the flesh dropped back. Girl and woman stood there once again robed in beauty. So swift was that transition from the grisly unreal to the normal that even to my unsuperstitious mind it smacked of necromancy.
These eyes were not always bleared and dim, nor this skin wrinkled and discoloured. I have not always been covered with these filthy rags nor have I always wanted or coveted the gold which you have just now bestowed on me. I have lived in palaces I have commanded there. I have been robed in gold I have been covered with jewels. I have dispensed life and death I have given away provinces.
Where has he gone? Hark! There are screams! It is a female voice! There are voices of men, too! We rush towards the spot where they are heard. We dash aside the walls of pendant skins. We see the chief. He has a female in his arms a girl, a beautiful girl, robed in gold and bright plumes. She is screaming as we enter, and struggling to escape him.
In any case I can never recapture in words the waves of sympathy with strange things that went through me in that twilight of the tall pillars, like giants robed in purple, standing still and looking down into that dark hole in the ground.
Presently a rustle was heard, and the headmaster swept down the staircase and through the curtain, robed in the black silk gown of an LL.D. He stood at a high desk which was placed opposite the staircase in front of the boys, who sat, in the order of their divisions, on rows of chairs.
She clapped her hands together, and called aloud, "Ho! Ægle! Ægle!" And at the call a beautiful Greek girl entered the chamber, voluptuous as her mistress in carriage and demeanor, and all too slightly robed for modesty, in garments that displayed far more than they concealed of her rare symmetry. "Bring wine, my girl," cried Fulvia; "the richest Massic; and, hark thee, fetch thy lyre.
Dom Manuel robed this body in brown drugget such as Niafer had been used to wear in and about the kitchen at Arnaye, and he did the other things that were requisite, for this was the day of All Saints when nothing sacred ought to be neglected. Return of Niafer Now the tale tells how Dom Manuel sat at the feet of the image and played upon a flageolet.
They wandered down the transept, and observed the majesty of England in stone, robed in togas, declaiming to the Almighty, and obviously convinced that He would be intensely interested; or perhaps dying in the arms of a semi-dressed female, with funeral urns or ships or cannon In the background; or, at least in one case, crouching hopelessly, before the dart of a triumphant death.
I had well-nigh forgotten it in my bliss, the Jewel! Then she went to a case of ebony-wood, where she kept the Jewel, and drew it forth, and shone in the beam of a pleasant imagination, thinking, ''Twill surprise him! And she robed herself in a robe of saffron, and set lesser gems of the diamond and the emerald in the braid of her hair, and knotted the Serpent Jewel firmly in a band of gold-threaded tissue, and had it woven in her hair among the braids.
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