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"The General will see you in a few minutes," said he, resuming his work, while I stood nursing my indignation and sense of wrong. In a little while General Wright entered a tall and striking figure, silver-haired, blue-eyed, ruddy faced, with a mixture of the dash of the soldier and the benignity of a bishop.
Holiest sweet "Babbo" mine, I see no other way for us, and no other help in winning back your sheep, which have left the fold of Holy Church in rebellion, not obedient nor subject to you, their father. I pray you therefore, on behalf of Christ crucified, and I will that you do me this grace, to overcome their malice with your benignity. Yours we are, father!
'I'm Miles O'Shaughnessy, Colonel of the Royal Raspers, here is my card. "The piece of pasteboard was complacently handed from one to the other of the party, who saluted my father with a smile of most courteous benignity. "'Colonel O'Shaughnessy, said one. "'Miles O'Shaughnessy, said the other. "'Of Killinahoula Castle, said the third.
Aulaire dropped on their knees before him. Calvert alone retained his composure and stood before the King, pale, with folded arms. For an instant there was a profound silence, and then Louis, drawing himself up to his full height and looking around upon the stricken company, turned to Calvert with so much benignity in his gaze and mien that the young American was startled and awed.
Happily the Legislature of Virginia was then assembled; and the electors of Louisa County had just filled a sudden vacancy in their representation by making choice of Patrick Henry. He had resided among them scarcely a year, but his benignity of temper, pure life, and simplicity of habits had already won their love.
He had risen as she rose and went to open the door for her. He escorted her through the smoke-room and stood there at the further door, holding out his hand, benignant and superbly solemn. "Good night, then," he said. She told herself that she was wrong, quite wrong about his poor old face. There was nothing in it, nothing but that grave and unadventurous benignity.
No stronger proof could exist, so far as the Cooleen Bawn was concerned, than her extraordinary power of conciliating love and attachment from all who approached her, or were engaged in attending upon her person. The singular softness of her sweet and mellow voice was in itself an exponent of the remarkable suavity and benignity of her disposition.
Her one consolation was in squeezing the hand of the girl from time to time. Not stealthily done, it was not objected to by the husband whose eye was on all. But the persistence in doing it sank her from the benignity of her station to the girl's level: it was conduct much too raw, and grated on the deed of the man who had given her his name. Madge pleased him better.
Johnson was in the house, and thus mentions the event: 'I felt almost the last flutter of his pulse, and looked for the last time upon the face that for fifteen years had never been turned upon me but with respect and benignity. Upon that day there was a Call of The LITERARY CLUB; but Johnson apologised for his absence by the following note:
But ever enshrined in memory is the seraphic son of Divine Mother-Master Mahasaya! Trying with poor words to do justice to his benignity, I wonder if Master Mahasaya, and others among the deep-visioned saints whose paths crossed mine, knew that years later, in a Western land, I would be writing about their lives as divine devotees.
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