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Then the will was read in the presence of the young earl; for there was a will. Everything that the late lord had possessed was left, in one line, to his best-beloved friend, the Signorina Camilla Spondi; and it was stated, and very fully explained, that Camilla Spondi was the Italian lady living at the Grange at the date on which the will was made.
Presently the discordant music ceased, and she began to pace noiselessly up and down the room. "Another one gone," she murmured; "the best-beloved. It is always the best-beloved that dies, and the one we hate that is left. Take all those coaches away, send the guests back home. Why do they come chattering and feasting here?
These were the golden years of Rondelet's life; but trouble was coming on him, and a stormy sunset after a brilliant day. He lost his sister-in- law, to whom he owed all his fortunes, and who had watched ever since over him and his wife like a mother; then he lost his wife herself under most painful circumstances; then his best-beloved daughter.
Why should I tremble that have naught to fear? My darling son lies murdered, and the living I call my son no more. Oh! I have borne And nourished at my breast a basilisk That stung my best-beloved child. My daughter, haste, And leave this house of horrors I devote it To the avenging fiends! In an evil hour 'Twas crime that brought me hither, and of crime The victim I depart.
It is upon you, therefore, my best-beloved friends, that I wish to impress not only the urgency and imperative necessity of your holy task, but also the limitless possibilities which it possesses of raising to such an exalted level not only the life and activities of your own community, but the motives and standards that govern the relationships existing among the people to which you belong.
And now their husbands and sons and brothers had gone from their homes. They would die on battle-fields, and in lonely camps untended, and the women simply said, "Some of us must follow our best-beloved." The United States Sanitary Commission was soon organized, for working in hospitals, looking after camps, and providing comforts for the soldiers.
"Best-beloved, one should not take it so much to heart such troubles as these soon pass away yes, indeed, they soon pass. Now listen, and I'll tell you something, 'when need is greatest, help is nearest. Yes, yes, remember that!
He is no husband, with all his leagues, for any Californian of pure Castilian blood." Elena had gone up to her room, and would have locked the door had she possessed a key. As it was, she indulged in a burst of tears at the prospect of marrying an Englishman, then consoled herself with the thought that her best-beloved brother would be with her in a few hours.
Then the King of Heaven imparted to the celestial princes the meaning of the threefold vision, and demanded which of them would consent to become man. The divine princes heard, and answered not a word; till the youngest and best-beloved of Heaven opened his lips and spake, saying: "Hear, O my Lord and Father!
A pang of desperate homesickness suddenly shook him. He wanted them his own. Why should he, their best-beloved, throw away his life a life filled to the brim with hope and energy and high ideals on this futile quest? He knew quite as well as the General or the Colonel that his ride was but a forlorn hope.
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