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The calm, thus wisely employed, did not last long. Charlemagne was soon aroused from his peaceful occupations to put down a revolt of Tassilo, Duke of Bavaria, as well as a meditated attack upon Italy by Adalgisus, the son of the deposed Lombard king, Desiderius, who was assisted underhand by the Greek empress, Irene, and had besides formed a secret alliance with the Duke of Beneventum.
Sleep had proved very pleasant for once. Sleep and in place of death too. "Well old fellow," said Lorand to his brother, "I owe you one more adventurous joke, with which I wish to surprise you." The threat was uttered so good-humoredly that Desiderius had no cause to be frightened, but he said quietly: "Tell me what it is." Lorand laughed. "I shall not go home with you now."
But I must hasten to explain that the drawing had nothing to do with dancing with the 'aunt' but was the lottery of an 'American duel' caused by a conflict between Gyáli and Lorand." Desiderius did not remark how the coppery spots on Sárvölgyi's face swelled at the words "American duel," and then how they lost their color again. "One moment, my dear boy," interrupted Madame Bálnokházy.
In the middle of the market-place, surrounded by heaps of vegetables, fruit, and earthenware pots and pans, stands the statue of Desiderius Erasmus, the first literary light of Holland; that Gerrit Gerritz for he assumed the Latin name himself, according to the custom of writers in his day that Gerrit Gerritz belonged, by his education, his style, and his ideas, to the family of the humanists and erudite of Italy; a fine writer, profound and indefatigable in letters and science, he filled all Europe with his name between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; he was loaded with favors by the popes, and sought after and entertained by princes; and his "Praise of Folly," written in Latin like the rest of his innumerable works, and dedicated to Sir Thomas More, is still read.
"Do so, I beseech you," said Lorand, soliciting his brother with humorously clasped hands. "I shall do so." "Well be quick: get your hat, and let us go." Desiderius with determined steps went in search of his hat. Czipra laughed after him. She saw how ridiculous it would be. He was going to calumniate the bridegroom before the bride.
The Dr. Erasmus upon whose letters you are to try your Latin this winter his name was Desiderius. Can you tell what it means? It signifies 'desired, as of a mother's heart, and he took a form of the Greek verb erao, meaning about the same thing, instead. It's a goodly famous name, you see. We mean to make our little girl the truest lady, and love her the best, of all the women in the Valley.
The whole way Desiderius could scarcely get one word from him, but he might easily read in his face all upon which he was meditating: and if he did utter once or twice encomiums on the beautiful May fields, Desiderius could see that his heart too felt spring within it.
Then he tried to clench his fist in them without tearing them. Perhaps he does not wish to touch, with uncovered hands, him for whom he is waiting! At last the street door opened, and steps made direct for his door. Only let him come! but he, whom he expected did not come alone: the first to open his door was not Pepi Gyáli, but his brother, Desiderius. By chance they had met.
In the days of Fiore the inmates of this convent still practised their old rites. Bertaux gives a reproduction of this serpent; he assimilates it, as regards technique and age, to that which lies before the altar of Monte Cassino and was wrought by Greek artisans of the abbot Desiderius. The church itself is held to be two centuries older than that of Patir.
Father Fromm opened his arms to receive the grandmother: Henrik leaped on to Desiderius' neck, while old Márton slouched up to Lorand, and, nudging him with his elbows, said with a humorous smile, "Well, no harm came of it, you see." "No, old fellow.
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