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Visible for Salome alone, it does not, with its fixed gaze, attract Herodias, musing on her finally consummated revenge, nor the Tetrarch who, bent slightly forward, his hands on his knees, still pants, maddened by the nudity of the woman saturated with animal odors, steeped in balms, exuding incense and myrrh.
I am so happy! but where shall we find such another neighbour? 'Come and see us. You know you are to persuade your sister. 'Ah! She shook her head. 'Salome is hard to move. But you you are such a traveller you will come to see Mr. James? 'I'm eighty to-morrow: I little expect to make any more journeys except one, Mercy.
Master Hiero, his round, snub-nosed face red with fussy emotion, gives the bride away; while Salome, dressed in white and looking very pretty and lady-like, does service as bridesmaid, such is her mistress's whim. She seems in even better spirits than the pale bride, and her black eyes scarcely wander from the minister's rapt countenance. We will not look too closely at this interview.
"My dear child," recommenced Sister Josephine, as soon as the train was well under way "my dear child, how is it possible that I find you here, alone on the train at midnight! Were you going on to Paris, and alone? Was any one to meet you there?" "Dear, good Sister Josephine, ask me no questions yet. I am ill really and truly ill!" sighed Salome. "Ah! I see you are, my dear child.
At the same time also did Antipas, another of Herod's sons, sail to Rome, in order to gain the government; being buoyed up by Salome with promises that he should take that government; and that he was a much honester and fitter man than Archelaus for that authority, since Herod had, in his former testament, deemed him the worthiest to be made king, which ought to be esteemed more valid than his latter testament.
Preoccupied with such a thought, they prompted their mother Salome, who one day took Jesus aside, and asked him for the two places of honor for her sons. Jesus evaded the request by his habitual maxim that he who exalteth himself shall be humbled, and that the kingdom of heaven will be possessed by the lowly.
"She must be at work in the house," they told him. He climbed up the stairway and knocked at the door; from within came the hum of a sewing-machine. Salome opened the door and Manuel entered. The seamstress was as pretty as ever, and, as ever, working. Her two boys had not yet entered colegio.
She blushed crimson and turned away her head the moment she had asked the question. "Engaged? What troth-plighted do you mean, young leddy?" "Yes," in a very low tone. "Bless the lass! nay, nor no thought of it," answered the housekeeper. "I was thinking that perhaps it would be well if he were not, that is all," explained Salome, a little confusedly.
Bother it! a woman could do this so much better than such a blundering old fellow as I! Well, there! Salome has, in the three years since her first entrance into society, refused half a score of eligible men. She is, and always has been, perfectly free from any such engagement. There, her mother would have done this better, I know.
"No, you cannot convince me of mistake, because I have not made any; but I will convince you of yours," said the lady, rising and striking a match and lighting a lamp; for they had hitherto sat in darkness. Salome smiled incredulously.
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