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On the other hand the city was no less disheartened by the loss of the priest of Hercules. The people could not explain to themselves how the African chieftain had put the gigantic Theron to death before the eyes of all Saguntum, and the more superstitious saw in this a celestial sign, the omen that the tutelary gods of the city were about to abandon it.
Theron went his way at a hurried pace, the sobered tones of her "good-bye" beating upon his brain with every measure of the droning waltz-music. The memory of the kiss abode with Theron. Like Aaron's rod, it swallowed up one by one all competing thoughts and recollections, and made his brain its slave.
If it were not such a noble thing to be an Irishman, it would be ridiculous." "Ah," said Theron, deprecatingly, "who would not be enthusiastic in talking of Miss Madden? What you said about her was perfect.
Ten years after the publication of the first volume of the 'Meditations' Hervey published three volumes of 'Dialogues between Theron and Aspasio, with a view to recommend to 'people of elegant manners and polite accomplishments' the Calvinistic theology, and more especially the doctrine of Christ's imputed righteousness stated Calvinistically.
When Theron woke next morning, Alice seemed to have dressed and left the room a thing which had never happened before.
He had visited the district twice since, and the changes discoverable each new time were more wonderful than anything Aladdin's lamp ever wrought. He had secured for Theron, through some of his friends in Portland, the superintendency of a land and real estate company, which had its headquarters in Seattle, but ambitiously linked its affairs with the future of all Washington Territory.
Theron looked earnestly at her, and said nothing. "And now take Soulsby," she went on. "Of course I take it for granted there's a good deal that he has never felt called upon to mention. He hasn't what you may call a talkative temperament. But there is also a good deal that I do know.
It grazed his shield with a thundering clang, and fell far away amid a cloud of dust. The African bent his knees at the shock, but recovered himself, and flinging away his broken shield rushed at Theron with lifted sword.
As this amazing windfall finally took shape, it enabled the Wares to live respectably through the year, and to leave Tyre with something over one hundred dollars in hand. It enabled them, too, to revive in a chastened form their old dream of ultimate success and distinction for Theron.
Do great works of art, the big achievements of the big artists, appeal to you, stir you up?" "Alas! that is something I can only guess at myself," answered Theron, humbly. "I have always lived in little places. I suppose, from your point of view, I have never seen a good painting in my life.
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