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De Crucis admitted the truth of the charge, explaining it in part by the character of the Neapolitan people, and by the tendency of the northern traveller to forget that such apparent luxuries as spacious rooms, shady groves and the like are regarded as necessities in a hot climate.
In the course of his investigations he became aware that the order had secretly established a lodge in Pianura; and hastening hither from Rome to advise your Highness of the fact, has discovered in the so-called Count Heiligenstern one of the most notorious apostles of the order." He turned to the priest. "Signor abate," he said, "you confirm these facts?" The abate de Crucis quietly advanced.
As he went out into the moonlit street Emile knew that he had taken the first step on his Via Crucis. He did not call it that, for of religion in the orthodox sense he possessed nothing, but he knew that his feet were set upon the path where snow and blood would mingle in his footprints. He was going back to Russia, where death would be a thing to be welcomed and desired.
They glance up in supplication at the nearest soldier; but they are seized with horror. For they have just seen the Roman soldier who crucified Our Lord in the Via Crucis of the parish! They have seen Pancracio! Demetrio repeats his order to search. Once again the women disappear to return this time with a moth-eaten wallet containing a few Huerta bills.
She continued to stare at him, leaning against the chair from which de Crucis had risen. "Your choice is made! Your choice is made!" she repeated. "And you have chosen " "You," he said simply. "Will you go to France with me, Fulvia? Will you be my wife and work with me at a distance for the cause that, in Italy, we may not serve together?
"The gradual removal of these suspicions at length led me to the experimentum crucis, which was this: I took two boards, and, placing one of them close behind the prism at the window, so that the light must pass through a small hole, made in it for the purpose, and fall on the other board, which I placed at about twelve feet distance, having first made a small hole in it also, for some of the incident light to pass through.
She moved across the room, carrying her head high and advancing tranquilly to Odo's side. Even in that moment of confused emotions he was struck by the nobility of her gait and gesture. She turned to de Crucis, and Odo had the immediate intuition that she had recognised him. "Will you let me speak a word privately to the cavaliere Valsecca?" she said. The other bowed silently and turned away.
Saith William of Malmesbury, recounting this marvellous achievement "statimque porrecto crucis signo, fracturam omnium ovorum consolidat."
De Crucis understood the force of these traditional influences; but Odo, in common with the more cultivated men of his day, had lived too long in an atmosphere of polite scepticism to measure the profound hold of religion on the consciousness of the people. Christ had been so long banished from the drawing-room that it was has hard to believe that He still ruled in field and vineyard.
What you took to be three spear-heads were really the lilies of France." "And the inscription?" "'Sanc. X. Pal. You can expand it into Sanctae Crucis Palatium. Some one has made a note upon the mirror as to whence it came. It was the Palace of the Holy Cross." "Holyrood!" I cried. "Exactly. Your mirror came from Holyrood. You have had one very singular experience, and have escaped.
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