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"And suppose, after all, there should be a light?" "Then George has his orders to come back and tell me; if there is a light, it is no ghost nor spirit, but some smuggler, or poacher, or vagrant, who is desecrating that sacred place; and I shall turn out with fifty men, and surround the church, and capture the scoundrel, and make an example of him." Grace turned cold and looked at Mr. Coventry.
The costly equipages and hunting studs of a constitutional king were also to be provided for. Could not all this have been done, especially in such a vast city, without expropriating convents, desecrating churches, and even seizing for their purposes the refuges of the sick? It was more than an idea that required such spoliation.
But an instinct, subtle, undefined, incomprehensible to herself, contradicted, indeed, by every convention of the neighborhood in which she had been reared, made Tillie feel that in yielding her lips to this man for whom she did not care, and whom, if she could hold out against him, she did not intend to marry, she was desecrating her womanhood.
That black shame shall feed glowing fire to-night, and raise a true wife's memorial over the ashes of my daughter. Mother, if by force you unite me in death with one who was not my husband, then will you bring a curse upon yourself for desecrating the shrine of the Eternal Lord of Death. Soldiers, light the fire; surround the woman! Father! Do not fear.
"You'll do no such thing at this hour," she said. "It's nearly Sunday morning. Would you begin your career by desecrating God's Day!" "If you start doing things," said Uncle, reverting to John's declaration of work, "you'll mebbe have no time to write about them!" "Oh, I'll have the time right enough. I'll make the time," John said. Uncle William got up and walked towards the staircase.
I tried to argue, but he went on murmuring, his eyes on the folio before him Finally I snapped: "You are a horrid atheist and a sinner in Israel. You are desecrating the holy place." And I rushed from the little synagogue His shocking whisper, "Do you really think there is a God?" haunted me all that afternoon and evening. He appeared like another man to me.
At all events, the bronze bell of this old ruin dated before 1700; and when preparations were under way for the Chicago World's Fair, these old Mission bells were so much in demand that the prices went up to $500; and the Mexicans of Pecos were so fearful of the desecrating thief that they carried this ancient bell away and buried it in the mountains where, no man knows: it has never since been found.
The desecrating hand of the British tourist had, however, left its mark in the shape of the name "J. Isaacson" cut deep into one of the slabs, considerably marring its beauty. It is not my intention to write a description of the ruins that now mark the spot where once stood the capital of the Persian Empire.
It struck him as a great pity such a pile should be touched: so much of the past was buried there that it was like desecrating, like digging up a grave. Since the years were letting it down so gently why jostle the elbow of slow-fingering time?
We read of fratricide, drunkenness, lying, unbelief, theft, idolatry, slave-dealing, and other crimes, but no hint as to sanctifying or desecrating the Sabbath. At length, a few days before the giving of the law, a natural phenomenon announced to the Jews the great change that was at hand the manna fell in double quantity on Friday, and was not found on Saturday.
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