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This I believed, sometimes more strongly, more weakly otherwhiles; yet I ever believed both that Thou wert, and hadst a care of us; though I was ignorant, both what was to be thought of Thy substance, and what way led or led back to Thee.
Before I gave thee this lesson, which is a better than thou ever gavest any one, and easier to remember, thou wert accusing me of invidiousness and malice against those whom thou callest the great, meaning to say the powerful. Thy imagination, I am well aware, had taken its flight toward Sicily, where thou seekest thy great man, as earnestly and undoubtingly as Ceres sought her Persephone.
Even when she was told, with proof positive, that he was in treaty with Rome, she said not a word to her friends. 'Let him deny me, let him deny me thrice, even as Thou wert denied, sweet Lord Jesus! she prayed to Christ on the wall. 'So denied, Thou didst not cease from loving.
"But, Custance, the King's Highness asketh not thee to deny that thou wert wed unto my Lord of Kent, but only to allow openly that the same were not good in law." "Can a law go backwards-way?" "Fair Cousin, the priest was excommunicate afore." "God wot if he were!" said Custance shrewdly. "Bishops use not to leave their letters tarry two months on the road, child.
Thou mayest shout thyself deaf, dance, and jump, but they may not hear thee; but if thou showest them the bright yellow gold thou wilt be heard and understood, even if thou hadst not a voice, and wert as dumb as thou wouldst wish D. Barbara to be,” answered the Moor.
Keep thy secret: but listen to a piece of good advice, which may serve thee at a pinch. If ever thou wouldst have a woman prize thee, never let her see that thou settest any store by her. Treat her as a straw, and she will run after thee as if thou wert a magnet: make thyself her slave, and she will hold thee cheap, and discard thee for another.
Surely thou wert not, like other monks, made so altogether fierce by dark keeping, that thou couldest not delight to see in God’s blessed, beautiful world, a smiling infant! Others insisted, that unbaptized infants would be condemned to become philosophers, and turn out the authors of great discoveries.
'Fore George, I would not ask thee to buckle my baldrick when the war-steeds were snorting, but I would trust Isabel with the links of my hauberk." "Nay, Father," said the low, timid voice of Anne, "if thou wert going to danger, I could be brave in all that could guard thee!" "Why, that's my girl! kiss me!
Are their churches for the poor? Are not the very pews in which they sit as closed to us as their houses?" "I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot. I would thou wert cold or hot." One inevitable conclusion of such a revelation was that he had not preached to them the vital element of Christianity.
Joseph answered: The three branches be yet three days, after which Pharaoh shall remember thy service and shall restore thee into thy foremost office and gree, for to serve him as thou wert wont to do.
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