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The sense of loneliness and peace was profound, and as the rare windows of the houses, minute and protected by heavy gratings, were dark, it had seemed to Domini at first as if all the inhabitants were in bed and asleep.
We have a theory: but Monsieur Domini also has one, and his, let us confess, is based upon material facts, while ours rests upon very disputable sensations and logic." "We have more than sensations," responded M. Plantat. "I agree with you," said the doctor, "but we must prove it." "And I will prove it, parbleu," cried M. Lecoq, eagerly. "The affair is complicated and difficult so much the better.
De Trevignac thanked him for his proffered hospitality with the ease of a man of the world, assuming that the kind invitation to him and to his men came from the husband as well as from the wife. When he had finished speaking, Androvsky, without looking up, said, in a voice that sounded to Domini new, as if he had deliberately assumed it: "I am glad, Monsieur.
"Agnovit bos et asinus Quod Puer erat Dominus!" In some of the earliest pictures the animals kneel, "confessing the Lord." One of the old Latin hymns, De Nativitate Domini, describes them, in that wintry night, as warming the new-born Infant with their breath; and they have always been interpreted as symbols, the ox as emblem of the Jews, the ass of the Gentiles.
He had a sly rather than a shrewd expression, so that his appearance alone seemed to awake all sorts of suspicions and put one instinctively on his guard. "Good news!" said he in a big voice: "I didn't make the journey to Paris for the King of Prussia; we are right on the track of this rogue of a Guespin." M. Domini encouraged him with an approving gesture.
The most easterly figure, which has this inscription in gold letters, Edvardus Primus Rex, Anno Dom. 1272. 2. Westward, Edvardus III. Rex, Anno Dom. 1329. 3. Henricus V. Rex, Anno Domini 1412. 4. Henricus VI. Rex, Anno Domini 1422. On the west side five niches, four of which are filled, viz.: Under the most southerly figures is subscribed in gold letters, Edvardus IV. Rex, Anno Domini 1460. 2.
But they came to the statue of the Cardinal holding the double cross towards the desert like a weapon. And she looked at it and saw the Christ. "Boris," she whispered, "there is the Christ. Let us think only of that tonight." She saw him look at it steadily. "You remember," she said, at the bottom of the avenue of cypresses "at El-Largani Factus obediens usque ad mortem Crucis?" "Yes, Domini."
Beneath that on the northern wing is the inscription: "Mr. Emery Hill, late of the parish of St. Margaret's, Westminster, founded these almshouses Anno Domini 1708. Christian Reader, in Hopes of thy Assistance." On each side similar inscriptions commemorate donations. On the southern wing the slab beneath the figure bears the words: "Rev.
But he looked calm, and even haughty, as the president, M. Domini, pronounced the terrible sentence, a thousand times braver at that moment than the man who, facing the squad of soldiers from whom he is to receive death, refuses to have his eyes bandaged, and himself gives the word of command with a firm voice.
C'est la dans le sable to-night." The moonlight showed the wound on his face. Suzanne uttered a cry and hid her eyes with her hands. They went on towards the trees. Hadj walked with hesitation. "How loud the music is getting," Domini said to him. "It will deafen Madame's ears if she gets nearer," said Hadj, eagerly. "And the dancers are not for Madame.
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