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Utter silence. A highly problematical tear was furtively dashed away. "One word, my little duck?" "Monsieur!" "What are you thinking of, my darling?" "Oh, Monsieur Crevel, I was thinking of the day of my first communion! How pretty I was! How pure, how saintly! immaculate!
"Dear Brother, In answer to your inquires about Father Damien, I can only reply that we who knew the man are surprised at the extravagant newspaper laudations, as if he was a most saintly philanthropist. The simple truth is, he was a coarse, dirty man, headstrong and bigoted.
"I," said one, "I am swift as the wind." "Bah!" cried the second, "I can fly like a bullet." "These two talk idly," said the third. "I am quick as the thought of a woman." The worthy prelate chose the third. The hour being late, he bargained that he should be carried to Rome and back before cockcrow, the price for the service to be his saintly soul.
So distinctly were the words spoken, that they seemed each one to rise as with a separate intelligence out of the mist, and to knock at the door of the heart. Sad is my life, and lonely! No hope for me, Save thou, my love, my only, I see! Where art then, O my fairest? Where art thou gone? Dove of the rock, I languish Alone! They say thou art so saintly, Who dare love thee?
My mother was the most saintly of women, absolutely unselfish and self-sacrificing, and it shocked me that any belief or lack of belief should exclude her from a Christian communion. When my father, in one of his numerous trades, bought out the only tinshop and put me in charge he changed my life and endangered my disposition.
This world is full of misunderstandings, but seldom is met one so desperate. How could I tell her now? And how could she ever understand? It was all too late. "Too late! too late!" the words haunted me there as the bright sun struggled through the drawn blind and illumined her saintly face.
Sister Tobias was the only other person in the Convent besides the Mother, who knew. She had helped her faithfully and tenderly to nurse Lynette through the long illness that had followed the finding of that lost lamb upon the veld. She was a homely creature of saintly virtues, the Mother's staff and right hand. And it was she who had asked Lynette if she was happy? Somebody was moving.
She goes over it, and over it, to make assurance sure, and makes good her ground with wearying repetition. A single section of a short paper is but a small space to enter on so vast an enterprise; nevertheless, a few very general words shall be ventured as a suggestion of what this monastic or saintly spirit may possibly have meant.
I had met with beautiful women in the halls of wealth and fashion, both at home and abroad, but there was something in her different from all my experience of womanhood." "I should think so," said Lorraine, with a sneer; "but I should like to know what it was." "It was something such as I have seen in old cathedrals, lighting up the beauty of a saintly face.
"Oh, sir," cried Conrad, angrily, "was your mother not a woman?" "Yes," said Gellert, softly, after a pause "yes, she was a woman, a whole-hearted, noble woman. She was the golden star of my childhood, the saintly ideal of the youth, as she is now in heaven the guardian angel of the man; there is no woman like her, Conrad.
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