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The place of honour was sacred to framed representations of the Nativity and Catholic subjects, half-modelled, half-pictured. The print was a portrait of the last Czar of Russia, of all the men in the world; and August was reported to have said that she loved that man. His father had been murdered, so had her mother.
There is the peace of the Empire in its best days, with some wide diffusion of prosperity and content. There are incursions of barbarians the strange, little-known life of nomadic tribes with pristine virtues of valor and chastity, half-pictured, half-imagined, by Tacitus. There is conquest, rapine, subjugation, suffering.
Now, as I entered, she threw down her work, some handkerchief for her shoulders, perhaps, or yet a banner for those unrisen men of Rome, I said, a white silk square on which she had wrought a hand with a gleaming sickle, reversed by tall wheat whose barbed grains bent full and ripe to the reaper, and round the margin, half-pictured, wound the wild hedge-roses of Paestum.
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