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Updated: May 15, 2025
With the Virgin is often the image of St. Peter. The followers of this saint affirm that they are always warned, three days before they die, to prepare for death. St. Peter comes in person and knocks on the wall beside their bed. As the virgin, Diana, was the guardian of Ephesus, so the Virgin Mary protects Argentina.
For a few minutes they waited yet, and watched the grey light creeping up; then, before anything was clearly discernible through the dusky gloom, the last farewell was taken; Evan mounted and walked his horse softly away from the door. Diana sat down with her face in her hands, and was still. She felt like a person stunned. It was very still all around her.
Diana enjoyed her walk beneath the lingering brown-red of the frosty November sunset, with the scent of sand-earth strong in the air. 'I had to hire a chariot because there was no two-horse carriage, said Redworth, 'and I wished to reach Copsley as early as possible. She replied, smiling, that accidents were fated. As a certain marriage had been! The comparison forced itself on her reflections.
In the commoner class of rooms these works of art are supplemented by a couple of pieces of china which might each be meant to represent a cow sitting upon its hind legs, or a model of the temple of Diana at Ephesus, or a dog, or anything else you like to fancy.
"To-night, I'll tell you, Lucy, some of the things you have forgotten." "You're a dear," murmured Diana, under her breath, turning to mount as Jonas and Na-che clambered into their saddles. All the afternoon, Enoch, riding under the burning sun, through the ever shifting miracles of color, rested in his happy dream. The past and the future did not exist for him.
"I ought to be" Diana answered, hesitating. "Some things folks does because they had ought to," remarked the old lady, "but bein' happy ain't one of 'em. The whole world had ought to be happy, if you put it so. The Lord wants 'em to be." "Not happy" said Diana hastily. "Yes. 'Tain't his fault if they ain't." "How can he want everybody to be happy, when he makes them so unhappy?" "He? the Lord?
"It must be old Martha," thought I, "whom Diana has engaged to be her companion for the evening; or I must have been mistaken, and taken Diana's shadow for a second person.
"Course," replied Diana. "What's foots for, you silly man, if not to stand? You is silly, Uncle Ben." "I never!" said Uncle Ben, bursting out laughing. "Well, missy, if I am silly, you has got a lot of sauce. 'What's good for the goose is good for the gander." "That sounds howid vulgar, and I don't underland," answered Diana, in a dignified tone.
Once or twice a creak of a farm waggon was heard along the road; it was too well known a sound to awake her attention; then came a sound far less common the sharp trot of a horse moving without wheels behind him. Diana started instantly and went to a window that commanded the road.
Cousin Burrage! And Lady Diana Chillingworth to hear it! oh, I should sink into the earth." "What amusement," continued Miss Burrage, addressing herself to Lady Di., "what amusement Lady Frances Somerset can find at a Bristol playhouse, and at this time of the year too, is to me really unaccountable." Frances, I am half dead."
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