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Denner in such horrified astonishment, that the little gentleman stumbled over any words, simply for the relief of speaking. "Yes," he said, "just so, Henry, just so. I have been thinking of it lately, perhaps for the last year; yes I have been thinking of it." Mr. Dale, still looking at him, made an inarticulate noise in his throat. Mr. Denner's face began to show a faint dull red to his temples.
"Carissima, you are ill!" she said with concern. Vittoria assented. "It is my eyes my head. The heat is perhaps as much to blame as our many worries." She removed her hat and pressed slender fingers to her throbbing temples, while Oliveta drew the curtains against the fierce rays of a westering sun.
M. Chenet also took his departure, leaving the Caravans alone, face to face. The husband soon fell back on his chair, and with the cold sweat standing out in beads on his temples, murmured: "What shall I say to my chief to-morrow?"
Houses, cemeteries, fields, gardens, and temples, lying on both sides of it, were turned into camping places. In the temple of Mars, which stood near the Porta Appia, the crowd had thrown down the doors, so as to find a refuge within during night hours. In the cemeteries the larger monuments were seized, and battles fought in defence of them, which were carried to bloodshed.
All the men were slain, all the women and children taken for slaves, and when all the statues, pictures, and jewels had been gathered out of the temples and houses, the place was set on fire, and burnt unceasingly for several days; the walls were pulled down, and the city blotted out from Greece.
Now they are collecting money from tourists to erect another temple, so they say. They tackle every American for a subscription and strangely enough they get a lot of money out of them. Speaking of heathen temples brings to mind a large one that I visited in Tokyo. It is dedicated to a fox.
The Mexican temples, or teocallis as they were called which means 'Houses of God' were very numerous, there being several hundreds of them in each of the principal cities. They looked rather like the Egyptian pyramids, and were divided into four or five stories, each one being smaller than the one below it, and the ascent was by a flight of steps at an angle of the pyramid.
Grijalva went on shore with several officers and a party of soldiers, to examine the bay and the adjacent country, where they found several temples containing idols of clay and wood, some like women, and others like serpents.
But we must not forget that the zigguratt was a temple, and that it is to the temples of Thebes that we must compare it. In such a comparison Egypt regains all its superiority. How cold and poor a show the towers of Chaldæa and Assyria make beside the colonnades of the Ramesseum, of Luxor, of Karnak!
All courteously got out of the road, sitting down or standing with their backs to the fences as their visitors passed. At most of the cross roads the temples just described were seen standing on mounds, but were surrounded by palisades instead of stone walls.
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