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I repeat, our true treasure is profound humility, great mortification, and an obedience which, seeing God in the superior, submits to his every order." The saint's delicate yet virile perception, and her power of expressing the shadowy and evanescent, filled Evelyn with admiration; and the saint appeared to her in the light of a great novelist; she wondered if Balzac had ever read these pages.
'Digging pits is quite in my line of business! exclaimed the devil, in so disagreeable a voice that the saint's mule would have bolted had the holy rider not kept a tight rein upon her. At the same moment the ground over which the infernal mule had just passed fell in with a mighty rumble and crash, leaving a yawning gulf.
A student, taking his leave, gazed ardently at the patriarchal sage. "You have renounced riches and comforts to seek God and teach us wisdom!" It was well-known that Bhaduri Mahasaya had forsaken great family wealth in his early childhood, when single-mindedly he entered the yogic path. "You are reversing the case!" The saint's face held a mild rebuke.
Upon a bracket in a corner stood a glass case enclosing a wreath of flowers wrought in worsted, and under it in a frame hung a sampler with the Lord's Prayer similarly wrought. On one side of the room stood a clock upon a shelf, flanked by the Family Bible and such books as "The Saint's Rest," "Holy Living," "The Fourfold State," "Scots Worthies," all ancient and well worn.
Which being accounted a miracle, this Arrigo was generally reputed a saint; and all the people of the city gathered before the house where his body lay, and bore it, with a saint's honours, into the cathedral, and brought thither the halt and paralytic and blind, and others afflicted with disease or bodily defects, as hoping that by contact with this holy body they would all be healed.
Only here and there a vivid patch of colour the jade-green dome of a saint's tomb, the clear blue or orange of an Arab boy's shirt, the brightly-appliqued portière of a public bath, or the purple robes of a student of the Khedivial School these, in their Eastern setting, studded the scene with precious gems.
But it turns out; that what he has to say is of that weight, as to withdraw some attention from the vehicle; and he is like some saint whose history is to be rendered into all languages, into verse and prose, into songs and pictures, and cut up into proverbs; so that the occasions which gave the saint's meaning the form of a conversation, or of a prayer, or of a code of laws, is immaterial compared with the universality of its application.
This, after all, is not necessarily very high praise; for the devotional books of the eighteenth century do not reach a very high degree of excellence; with the single exception of the 'Serious Call, not one of them can be compared with the best of the preceding century with Jeremy Taylor's 'Holy Living and Holy Dying, for instance, or Baxter's 'Call to the Unconverted, or his 'Saint's Everlasting Rest, or Howe's 'Living Temple.
You may well think how highly this realization of the prediction inspired the king with confidence as to the fulfilment of the remainder: and, on his part, he never failed upon any saint's day or other solemn festival to stick the mysterious pin in the talisman upon which so much depended.
"Did she think I was lost?" "Signora, the Signorina is on the cliff with Ruffo." "With Ruffo?" They were going up the steps. "Si, Signora. We have all been together." Hermione guessed that Gaspare had been playing chaperone, and loved him for it. "And you heard the boat coming from the cliff?" "I saw it pass under the Saint's light, Signora. I did not hear it."
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