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He waited many years before any such mate could be found for him: yet, at last, found she was one into whose head was bestowed all the wisdom that might be gathered from the four quarters of heaven. They were both old, but kings came from all sides to their wedding, and offered themselves as god-parents to the first-born of the new race that was to be.
"See, reverend sir, here is a neophyte, waiting for the baptismal water: I have just taught her the 'credo." The girl gave him a look full of gratitude. What happiness glittered in those eyes of ecstasy! "Who will be the god-parents?" asked the clergyman. "One, the magistrate, if he will be so kind: the other, I." Czipra looked appealingly, first at Topándy, then at Lorand.
She was pale and wan, but so ecstatically proud and happy looking; and Tristram at once said, they he and Zara must be the god-parents of her boy; and Zara held the crimson, crumpled atom for a moment, and then looked up and met her husband's eyes, and saw that they had filled with tears. And she returned the creature to its mother but she could not speak, for a moment.
The god-children were, according to ecclesiastical custom, considered in every sense entitled to all the protection and assistance which were within the competence of the god-parents, who, in their turn, received from the former the most absolute submission.
On their way to Rome they visited Leghorn, a period of eleven years having elapsed since their last sojourn in that place, and made special arrangements there for having the graves of their kind god-parents, Moses and Esther Racah, kept in proper order.
The next day they attended divine service in the German Synagogue, and were present at the naming of a child, the son of a distinguished member of the community, to whom they had been requested to act as god-parents.
Swallow-tails, of various colours, with tails almost as long, in proportion to their bodies, as those of their feathered namesakes; god-parents and 'eighty-eights, with the figures 88 plainly marked on the reverse side of their rich blue or crimson wings. In fact, if nature could by any possibility be gaudy, one might almost say that she is so in this part of the world.
Their most frivolous excitement was to see their governess fall off her donkey. The piety of the duchess might in some respects appear extravagant. Her fourth daughter had two beggars of the parish for god-parents, as a constant reminder of humility. The same child was of a violent and willful disposition, but was converted at the age of eleven and became mild, patient, and studious.
His friend Mathesius tells us, of their early married life, 'A poor man made him a pitiful tale of distress, and having no cash with him, Luther came to his wife she being then confined for the god-parents' money, and brought it to the poor man, saying, 'God is rich, He will supply what is wanted. Afterwards, however, he grew more careful, seeing how often he was imposed upon.
Everybody was born, but not everybody received such a fine name from such a fine family at such a fine service under the leadership of such a fine priest; and not everybody has such fine god-parents.
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