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'And how do you read the half-defaced motto, sir, said Bertram, 'which is upon that scroll above the entablature with the arms? 'I I I really do not exactly know, replied Glossin. 'I should be apt to make it out, OUR RIGHT MAKES OUR MIGHT. 'I believe it is something of that kind, said Glossin. 'May I ask, sir, said the stranger, 'if it is your family motto? 'N n no no not ours.
'And how do you read the half-defaced motto, sir, said Bertram, 'which is upon that scroll above the entablature with the arms? 'I I I really do not exactly know, replied Glossin. 'I should be apt to make it out, OUR RIGHT MAKES OUR MIGHT. 'I believe it is something of that kind, said Glossin. 'May I ask, sir, said the stranger, 'if it is your family motto? 'N n no no not ours.
"And how do you read the half-defaced motto, sir," said Bertram, "which is upon that scroll above the entablature with the arms?" "I I I really do not exactly know," replied Glossin. "I should be apt to make it out, 'Our Right makes our Might. " "I believe it is something of that kind," said Glossin. "May I ask, sir," said the stranger, "if it is your family motto?" "N-n-no no not ours.
In the most lonely recesses of the mountains, the moor-fowl shooter has been often surprised to find him busied in cleaning the moss from the grey stones, renewing with his chisel the half-defaced inscriptions, and repairing the emblems of death with which these simple monuments are usually adorned.
Here, among these half-defaced ruins, one detects Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Moorish inspirations, calculated to puzzle the scientist as to their probable origin. The singular conglomerates of our own day are not more confusing than some of the best-preserved specimens to be found in these ruined cities of ancient Ceylon.
The gigantic remains of a portico, the mutilated fragments of statues of great size, but executed in a taste and attitude so narrow and barbaric as to seem perfectly the reverse of the Grecian, and the half-defaced hieroglyphics which could be traced on some part of the decayed sculpture, corroborated the popular account of their origin, which we shall briefly detail.
In the most lonely recesses of the mountains, the moor-fowl shooter has been often surprised to find him busied in cleaning the moss from the grey stones, renewing with his chisel the half-defaced inscriptions, and repairing the emblems of death with which these simple monuments are usually adorned.
This hermit of the tower will call your attention to the ancient bells, which are his sole companions: one bears the date of 1664, with a half-defaced Latin legend; another is dated at London, 1698.
By this time my readers must fully perceive what an arduous task I have undertaken exploring a little kind of Herculaneum of history, which had lain nearly for ages buried under the rubbish of years, and almost totally forgotten; raking up the limbs and fragments of disjointed facts, and endeavoring to put them scrupulously together, so as to restore them to their original form and connection; now lugging forth the character of an almost forgotten hero, like a mutilated statue: now deciphering a half-defaced inscription, and now lighting upon a mouldering manuscript, which, after painful study, scarce repays the trouble of perusal.
The two men looked as though they belonged to the little room. Meschini's yellow complexion was as much in keeping with the surroundings as the chemist's gray, colourless face. His bloodshot eyes wandered from the half-defaced cards to the objects in the shop, and he was uncertain in his play.
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