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O ye peoples of the world! Know, verily, that an unforeseen calamity is following you, and that grievous retribution awaiteth you. Think not the deeds ye have committed have been blotted from My sight. By My beauty! All your doings hath My Pen graven with open characters upon tablets of chrysolite. O kings of the earth! He Who is the sovereign Lord of all is come.
Divine sanction had thus been given to the horrid rite; and thenceforth, whenever in Phoenicia either public or private calamity threatened, it became customary that human victims should be selected, the nobler and more honourable the better, and that the wrath of the gods should be appeased by taking their lives. The mode of death was horrible.
There the dice, beautiful as the eyes of gazelles, were being thrown constantly. And Calamity seemed to be looking on, thinking: "Whom shall I embrace?" And the loud shouts of angry gamblers seemed to suggest the question: "Who is there that would not be fleeced here, were he the god of wealth himself?" This hall the youth entered, and played with dice.
The dog, as he re-entered the castle, called attention to some pieces of blood-stained rag, which, from their appearance, had dropped from his mouth; one of these, the innermost, was in texture and pattern evidently part of a Syrian garment. The Lady Alianore did not die under this dreadful calamity: she lived to mourn.
So rose Oliver so rose Milton so rose many another name which cannot be forgotten even as the tempest summons forth and displays the address of the mariner." "You speak," said Peveril, "as if national calamity might be, in some sort, an advantage."
"Don't be a calamity howler!" exclaimed Ned. "Frank will come back to us. The chums can't be separated." "I hope that's true," put in Bart, from where he was sitting under a tree, smoothing one of the canoe paddles. "All our fun will be spoiled if we have to break up the quartette. "Hark! What's that?" asked Fenn, sitting up suddenly. They all listened.
As for me, though I writhed at heart, I bore the calamity philosophically enough in external appearance, nor did I the less busy myself in political matters: with what address and success, good or bad, I endeavoured to supply the loss of my parliamentary influence, the reader will see, when it suits the plot of this history to touch upon such topics. Glanville I saw continually.
Yet, in the meantime, Correus, unconquered by calamity, could not be prevailed on to quit the field and take refuge in the woods, or accept our offers of quarter, but, fighting courageously and wounding several, provoked our men, elated with victory, to discharge their weapons against him.
The short summer of North America attained its height; and, as the heat increased, so did Ludovico's young life wane away, and his strength become daily less. Rudolph now saw, as plainly as his afflicted wife, that their only remaining son was soon to be taken from them; and he strove to arm both himself and her with the only power that could support them under such an aggravated calamity.
Thus Martin and Barney were separated in the wild regions near the Sierra dos Parecis of Brazil. When the mind has been overwhelmed by some sudden and terrible calamity, it is long ere it again recovers its wonted elasticity.
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