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The edict of the Emperor upon the occasion, therefore, passed into a law, acknowledged by the assent of the chiefs present, and especially affirmed and gratulated by the shouts of the assembled spectators.
A week or two later the suitable person had been discovered a lady of some thirty years of age, by name Miss Hurst. She was agreeable and refined, endowed, moreover, with the tact which was desirable in one undertaking an office such as this. Ida found her companionship pleasant, and Mr. Woodstock con gratulated himself on having taken the right step.
"Regard not that, my brother," answered Magdalen Graeme; "the first successors of Saint Peter himself were elected, not in sunshine, but in tempests not in the halls of the Vatican, but in the subterranean vaults and dungeons of heathen Rome they were not gratulated with shouts and salvos of cannon-shot and of musketry, and the display of artificial fire no, my brother but by the hoarse summons of Lictors and Praetors, who came to drag the Fathers of the Church to martyrdom.
Some recognised the man, whose appearance and features were not easily forgot, and gratulated him upon his most unexpected return to the service of his country.
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