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She still stood upon the capitol, with the laurel-crown upon her brow, cheered by her respectable protectors and friends.
Listen, Albani; it seems that we must be mutually useful to each other; I need your voice to become pope, and you need mine to become a favored lover. Very well, give me your voice, and in return, I promise you a laurel-crown for Signora Corilla, and eight thousand scudi for yourself!" "Ah, you would haggle!" contemptuously exclaimed Albani. "You would be a very niggardly vicegerent of God!
"You shall have the laurel-crown, and your myrtle crown is mine!" he excitedly exclaimed. "You will soon see whether Francesco is a cold-hearted man! Farewell, Corilla!" And with a hasty salute he left the room. The astonished Corilla dismissed him with a smile. "If it is to succeed at all, it can be only through him," said she. "Poor Francesco, he will bring me a full laurel-crown!
You have set of crown of thorns upon the head of your beloved, I would bind a laurel-crown upon the beautiful brow of my Corilla, which will not wound her head, and will not cause her to die of grief. You are not willing to aid me in this, my work? You refuse me this laurel-wreath because you have only martyr-crowns to dispose of?
Thomson held a distinguished place among his contemporaries, a circumstance which in due time earned for him the laurel-crown of Edinburgh studenthood, in the form of a presidency of the Royal Medical Society a post of honour which had been occupied by his venerable father also, a quarter of a century before.
He had not purchased his popularity with servile adulation and at a sacrifice of his own personal dignity. The smiles of the world are too transient and uncertain to repay one for such a compromising tribute, especially when we can provoke them in a worthier and more respectful manner. I doubt, however, if ever a laurel-crown were worn more comfortably than Ernest Dalton could have worn his.
Will you do it?" Braschi gave the cardinal a sly glance. "Ah," said he, "Signora Corilla seems to be less liberal than Signora Malveda? She will allow you no discount of her future laurel-crown, is it not so? I know nothing worse than an ambitious woman.
"No," said Albani, laughing; "the noble Juno was not exactly true to her Vulcan, and I require a faithful love! Would you be that, Corilla?" "We shall see," said she, changing the arrangement of the diadem before the glass "we shall see, my worthy friend. But forget not the conditions first the laurel-crown!" "You shall have it!" triumphantly responded the cardinal.
And by his side do you not see who the man is close by him? "It is old Horapollo. He is taking the laurel-crown off his wig! Alexander is going to speak."
And by his side do you not see who the man is close by him? "It is old Horapollo. He is taking the laurel-crown off his wig! Alexander is going to speak."
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