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It had been solemnly handed to him for inspection, with the information that the trooper's father had also worn it. It was old. The circular scroll, which at one time had doubtless borne an inscription, was smooth save for a few dimples which indicated faintly where words had been. The centre was a slightly raised disc about an inch and a quarter in diameter.
She owned the impeachment, and was ready to endure gibbet or stake for the truth of her talisman, more than a mesmerist would for the truth of his passes! And the charm was a scroll of gibberish sewn in an old bag and given to the woman in a freak by the judge himself when a young scamp on the circuit. But the charm cured? Certainly; just as mesmerism cures. Fools believed in it.
Seven men first a man of the tribe of Aaron the High Priest, then a Levite, and then five ordinary Israelites were called up to the platform to stand by while the Scroll was being intoned, and their arrivals and departures broke the monotony of the recitative.
As the magic scroll unrolled still farther, they found themselves back in the center of the galaxy, starting outward in the wedge adjacent to the one which they had just traversed. Seaton cut off the motor and wiped his forehead. "Wouldn't that break you off at the ankles, Mart? Did you ever conceive the possibility of such a thing? "It would, and I did not.
"I remember how she used to sit right there on Father's hair-trunk and eat them and watch me just like you now." At this statement Elly could feel her thoughts getting bigger and longer and higher, like something being opened out. "And the heaven was removed as a scroll when it is rolled up."
Hence we shall have in our memories a long scroll of continuous wayside pictures, all imbued already with the prevailing sentiment of the season, the weather, and the landscape, and certain to be unified more and more, as time goes on, by the unconscious processes of thought.
Written on the scroll of history, limned on the page of law, we find the words of the fathers, sane and helpful thought and good counsel. In days of doubt and worry and despair we may meet the fathers on the written page. But, oh, how grand a blessing for the human race could we sit at their feet beholding them in the flesh and receive their teachings!
He read the same passage he had read in Capernaum: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for he has consecrated me to preach the gospel to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release for captives and recovery of sight for the blind. He has sent me to set free the oppressed and to proclaim the year of the Lord's blessing." Jesus rolled up the scroll. Everyone waited for him to speak.
He assured me that you had kept your wedding so close a secret that he knew it not, nor did even Desmarais, till the evening before, till after he had proposed that I should visit Isora that very day. I know not, I care not, whether he was sincere in this. In whatever way one line in the dread scroll of his conduct be read, the scroll was written in guile, and in blood was it sealed.
Farewell! yet stay thou art assured that Muza Ben Abil Gazan is in the prisons of the Moor?" "Yes." "Blessed be the Virgin!" "Thou hast heard our conference, Father Tomas?" said the king, anxiously, when the Hebrew had withdrawn. "I have, son." "Did thy veins freeze with horror?" "Only when my son signed the scroll. It seemed to me then that I saw the cloven foot of the tempter."
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