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Didier, as much as MM. Fauvet and Poncelet in that of St. Symphorien." To the character of M. Levasseur the writer bears honourable testimony, as a young man who had devoted time, talents, and a liberal private fortune, to the cause; and whose exertions on this occasion impaired a naturally delicate constitution.
Symphorien stopped for a moment to contemplate the effect of the miracle on his audience and then proceeded: "And above all, you must not fail to observe that the account of the miracle expressly states that it was the great St. Martin himself, who, in paradise, prayed to the Lord that he give such a token of friendship for Clotaire. Now, then, St.
Ingres, chief of the Classic School, and Delacroix, chief of the Romantic School, shone at the same time. In 1827, the first submitted to general admiration l'Apotheose d'Homere and Le Martyre de Saint Symphorien.
They came into the rue Royale just as the sun was flinging a splendor over everything on the gray cathedral spires and the square tower of Charlemagne and the gloomy Tour de Guise, and as they crossed the great stone bridge to the old quarter of St. Symphorien, the Loire flowed away beneath them like some fabled stream of molten gold.
One fancies the merchant conversant with a higher and less sordid class of persons and details than the master spinner, and vineyards more agreeable objects than dying-houses and treddles. Be this as it may, appearances are certainly in favour of Bordeaux as the second city in France. From Lyons to St. Symphorien, our breakfast-stage, twelve miles.
Are we, perchance, on such good terms with heaven?" "We are on all the better terms with heaven for living like wolves, like true wolves. Therefore, logice, the Lord will deliver us from our enemies by miracles. And that I shall now proceed to prove to you." "To the proof, learned Symphorien to the proof! We are waiting for your arguments."
She was a beautiful woman, in the plain black habit and white head-dress of a sister of charity. "Oh, they're nuns!" exclaimed Joyce, in a disappointed whisper. She had been hoping to see the beggar girls. She had often passed the convent in St. Symphorien, and caught glimpses of the nuns, through the high barred gate.
"Learned, very learned Symphorien, you promised to prove to us logice that heaven would rain miracles in our favor; but your rhetoric tends to prove just one thing that Clotaire is an eternal wedder " "My rhetoric first establishes the premises, you will presently see what conclusions flow from them ergo, I shall establish one more prefigurement, which I shall also need for my argument.
The Master of the Hounds received the kiss, while his neighbor, grave like a man half-seas over, said in a magisterial voice: "Brothers, I have an idea " "Your idea, Symphorien, seems to be to drain that amphora to the very bottom." "Yes, to begin with and then to prove to you logice and a priori " "To the devil with your Roman tongue!"
They talked about everybody in St. Symphorien. "Then I gossiped, too. I asked Clotilde Robard if she knew why the gate with the big scissors was never opened any more. She told me that she used to be one of the maids there, before she married the spice-monger and was Madame Robard.
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