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And without telling his mother, he consulted the star-gazers and appointed the marriage for the seventh day. At the same time a third Brahman youth came to the girl's mother and asked for the girl. And the mother said: "My son, a wise man or a clever man or a brave man shall marry my daughter but no one else. Which of these are you? Tell me." And he said: "I am a wise man."
Another interesting feature is the Japanese Tea Garden. Then there is the well equipped Observatory on Strawberry Hill from which you can look far out to sea, and where star-gazers can study celestial scenery as the Heavens declare God's glory.
The burden of our ignorance is hard to bear. Thus we cry, but there comes no answer, and the eternal silence which enfolds the earth is unbroken. Yet the stars still shine, promising but not fulfilling. We have become star-gazers, we irreconcilables; expecters of signs and wonders.
Up here astronomers, star-gazers, horoscopists and Magians spent their nights, while, far below them, in the temple-courts that were surrounded by store-houses and stables, the blood of sacrificed beasts was shed and the entrails of the victims were examined.
Every thing is proceeding with railroad speed. Every branch of business is urged forward with all practical earnestness. Every sail is set main-sail, top-sails, star-gazers, heaven-disturbers all expanded to catch the breeze, and urge the vessel to her destined port.
Some of them found their way to the gills of the brook trout, and some to the minnows, and the herrings, and the suckers, and the star-gazers; some fed the little crustacea, and the insect larvæ, and the other tiny water animals that make up the lower classes of society; and some passed undetained down the river and out into Lake Superior.
Let now the astrologers, the star-gazers, the monthly prognosticators stand up and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee! The people stopped their pushing and looked aghast to see who spake, but I could have sworn it was Fra Paolo's voice.
In official speeches, sometimes, at moments of great public flattery, they speak like the reformers, but that is only the diplomacy which aims at felling them better. They force the light-bearers to hide themselves and their torches. These dreamers, these visionaries, these star-gazers, they are hooted and derided. Laughter is let loose around them, machine-made laughter, quarrelsome and beastly:
"By Jove, you've tossed my stars around like so many dice! I've got to consult the oracles immediately." He darted from the room and when Archie reached his study the Governor was poring over a map of the heavens. "Your Isabel's all tangled up in our affairs!" declared the Governor with mock resentment. "It's she who has upset the calculations of all star-gazers from the time of Ptolemy!"
The better to gull the world, the Star-gazers assert that the heavens are the book in which God has written the destiny of all things; and that it is only necessary to learn to read this book, which is simply the construction of the stars, to be able to know the whole history of what is to come to pass.
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