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The lama covered his face afresh, and nervously rattled the rosary. Kim squatted beside him and laid hold upon a fold of his clothing. 'Now it is understood that the boy is a Sahib? he went on in a muffled tone. 'Such a Sahib as was he who kept the images in the Wonder House. The lama's experience of white men was limited. He seemed to be repeating a lesson.
He is a grave and reverend signior, with rosary in hand and Koran on lip, is generally a pilgrim, talks at dreary length about Holy Places, writes a pretty hand, has read and can recite much poetry, is master of his religion, demeans himself with respectability, is perfect in all points of ceremony and politeness, and feels equally at home whether sultan or slave sit upon his counter.
On the first day of her nonappearance the empress had not appeared to remark her absence. But on the second day her eyes wandered sadly from her prayer book to her children, and her lips seemed ready to frame some question. Instead of speaking, she bent her head over her rosary, and strove to pray with more devotion than usual. Finally came a third day, and still Christina was absent.
His gown of rough cloth was tied round the waist with a white cord, from which a rosary hung. He greeted the prisoner, reaching for his hand: "May I say good evening? I should like to, if I may." "I sent for you, Father. I don't know if you are aware how things are with me," said Konrad. "Yes, I know, I know. But the Lord is nearer to you to-day than He was yesterday," replied the monk.
Such action brought to the dull and conscientious leader of the Brotherhood of the Holy Rosary this thought: "'Suffer little children to come unto me, said Our Savior, it is true, but here must be understood, children who do not cry."
The good dame herself was industrious, not only from thrift but from taste, and if not busy in her vocation or in household business, was either using her distaff or her needle, or chatting with her neighbours often doing both at once; but though Aldonza could spin, sew, and embroider admirably, and would do so at the least request from her hostess, it was always a sort of task, and she never seemed so happy as when seated on the floor, with her dark eyes dreamily fixed on the narrow window, where hung her jackdaw's cage, and the beads of her rosary passing through her fingers.
We begin the prayers of the Rosary with the sign of the Cross, with which the Church commences all her prayers. This sign reminds us of the Most Holy Trinity in whose Name we were baptized, and to whom we belong absolutely, through creation, redemption, and sanctification.
And again he lowered his head, slowly fingering the beads of the rosary. "That means we must think," said one of the peasants; "but when has a man time to think during his life on earth?" "Confusion is all around us." "We must flee to the desert," said the peasant who lay on the bench. "Not everybody can afford it." The peasants spoke, and became silent again.
Make not your rosary of yew berries, he found himself saying. Who wrote that? Make not your rosary of yew berries. Why, of course, it was Keats. It was the first line of the Ode to Melancholy. Esther was still kneeling out there in the sunlight. And how did the poem continue? Make not your rosary of yew berries. What was the second line?
With one hand he supports a monkey; with another he grasps a serpent; and the other hands hold out symbolic things a wheel, a sword, a rosary, a sceptre. Upon the pedestal below the Three Apes are carven; and the face of an ape appears also upon the front of the god's tiara. I see also tablets of stone, graven only with the god's name, votive offerings.
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