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She looked on the carline steadfastly, but gave no token of knowing her; but the ancient woman spoke when she came near to the Hall-Sun, and old as her semblance was, yet did her speech sound sweet to the Hall-Sun, and indeed to all those that heard it and she said: "May we be here to-night, O Hall-Sun, thou lovely Seeress of the mighty Wolfings? may a wandering woman sit amongst you and eat the meat of the Wolfings?"
He props himself by spiritual aid from a maiden now in this country, who was once an attendant on the Seeress, and who seems to have caught from her the contagion of trance, but not its revelations. Do not blame me that I have written so much about Germany and Hades, while you were looking for news of the West.
Children and fools, 't is said, do speak the truth, beausire; and in all this do I see the malice and device of this false Atheling, the friend of your rebellious brother, Duke Robert, as you do know him to be; and I do brand him here, in this presence, as traitor and recreant to you, his lord." Witch-wife or seeress. The anger of the jealous king grew more unreasoning as Sir Ordgar went on.
"Well," said Leslie, laughing, "what am I to understand? That you have been testing the skill of this seeress, or that you are about to do so?" "There you go!" said Joe Harris. "Now you are on the other side of the fence! Excuse my similes, but I have not always been cooped up in this humdrum city I occasionally pay visits to the country.
On his part, he lost no time in seeking the Mariposa, calling at her apartment the next morning, only to be informed by a particularly trim and discreet maid that her mistress received no one save by appointment. Therefore, bowing to the inevitable with what philosophy he could summon, he went home and wrote a note to the seeress, requesting an early interview and signing an assumed name.
Had she gone to them as a white woman, using the arts of civilized persuasion, she could have roused them to war, but she could not have soothed them to peace. She knew it even I knew that among the Iroquois the Ruler of the Heavens can never speak to an Indian through the mouth of a white woman. As an Oneida, and a seeress of the False-Faces, she had answered their appeal.
In the second part of Faust, Goethe puts the following words into the mouth of a seeress: “Him I love who craves the impossible,” and Goethe himself, in his “Prose Proverbs,” says: “To live in the idea means treating the impossible as though ’t were possible.” A certain equanimity should pervade the soul of the occult student concerning the world of feeling.
"Why, ma'am," answered Clare, "she's my own baby! It was I took her out of the water-but! I washed and fed her every day! not that I could do it so well as you, ma'am!" She gave him the baby, and watched him with the eye of a seeress, for she had a wonderful insight into character, and that is one of the roots of prophecy.
"The following morning at my visit I again commended my poor child to Palma, and on the following Friday evening on taking leave of her, I asked if she had prayed that morning for my son, 'No sir, she answered. 'I will only do so on the day of All Saints. 'Then, said I to Palma, 'will you allow madame the superioress to take the answer? 'Very willingly, said the seeress.
It is exactly the same force which rots out the heart of the oak, manifesting itself in human character. Your problem is not to give way to your weaknesses. That is the problem of all of us. "I see two men looking from your eyes," said the Norse seeress, "a young man and an old man. Do not let the old man in you conquer the young man in you." Very well!
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