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The father died soon after in a cloister; the mother was left with her illegitimate infant, whom she called first, after his father, Gerard; but afterwards, from his beauty and grace, she changed his name the words Desiderius Erasmus, one with a Latin, the other with a Greek, derivation, meaning the lovely or delightful one. Not long after, the mother herself died also.
But Lorand was just relating to Melanie how the day-before-yesterday, when the beautiful moonlight shone upon the piano, which had remained open as the young lady had left it, soft fairy voices began suddenly to rise from it. Though that was surely no spirit playing on the keys, but Czipra's tame white weasel that, hunting night moths, ran along them. "Yes," said Desiderius in answer to the lady.
Czipra took Desiderius' hand, and as she led him to his room, asked him the whole history of his life: where he lived: why he had not visited Lorand sooner: was he married already, and would he ever come back there again?
"Put them in the fire," said Gyáli. Desiderius threw two pieces of lilac paper into the fire. They were cold May days; outside the face of nature had been distorted, and it was freezing; in Lorand's fire-place a fire was blazing. The two pieces of paper were at once burnt up. Only they were not those on which the two young men had written their names.
Desiderius, without being noticed, had changed them for the dance programme, which he had cast into the fire. He kept the two fatal signatures to himself. He had a very good reason for doing so, and a still better reason for saying nothing about it. Lorand said: "Thank you, Desi." He thanked him for drawing that lot.
She was the magnanimous fairy, of whom Desiderius spoke, and that fickle woman of whom she had spoken herself. The barrister was a master of repartee.
Desiderius was an addition selected by himself, which he first used in 1496; it is possible that the study of his favourite author Jerome, among whose correspondents there is a Desiderius, suggested the name to him.
I shall drive the horses to Lankadomb, you can drive them back." "Poor horses!" Desiderius did not dare to go himself with these glad tidings to his mother. He entrusted Fanny to prepare her for them perhaps so much delight would have killed her. They told her Lorand had official business which called him to Lankadomb for one day; and they started together with Topándy.
Do you know, Desiderius is the very double of what your father was when he came home from the academy: the same face, figure, depth of voice, the same lightning fire in his eyes, and that same murderous frown, and you are now going to take that boy before Sárvölgyi that he may relate an awful story of a man who wished to murder a good friend in the most devilish manner, just as he did!" "Hush!
Whatever hopes of mutual solace and helpfulness and of the joys of intimate close friendship may have been in the minds of these two most learned men of their time, they were destined to be grievously disappointed. Only a few years after Constantine's entrance into the monastery at Monte Cassino Desiderius was elected Pope.
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