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"I desire," said the King in some of his latest words, "I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works." His aim has been more than fulfilled. His memory has come down to us with a living distinctness through the mists of exaggeration and legend which time gathered round it. The instinct of the people has clung to him with a singular affection.
I never spake bad word, nor did any ill turn to any living creature. Believe me now, I never killed a mouse, nor hurt a fly. I trod upon a worm once against my will, but I wept for it. How have I offended?" The murderer replied, "My commission is not to reason on the deed, but to do it."
Horrible and revolting to humanity was the scene that presented itself. The living crawling from under the dead, children wandering about with heart-rending cries, calling for their parents; and infants still sucking the breasts of their lifeless mothers. More than 6,000 bodies were thrown into the Elbe to clear the streets; a much greater number had been consumed by the flames.
This place the peasants of the canons have called "The Old City"; and no one living will go near it who knows it well. The Causses have also this peculiar to them: that the ravines by which each is cut off are steep and sudden. But the cliffs of the Causse of Mende are walls.
And this flight had been across the country in its loveliest festal array, in the most productive of months, when the earth was bristling with ears of grain, when the August sky was most brilliant, and when the birds were greeting the opulent harvest with their glad songs! In that circus, filled with the wandering crowds, the immense crime was living again.
"I hope you won't be such a fool as to encourage him in his application." "If he were in actual distress, my dear," said Mr. Stanton, "I should feel that I ought to do something." "Then you'd allow yourself to be imposed upon, that's all I've got to say. There is no need of his being in distress. He is a stout boy, and capable of earning his own living." "He might get sick," suggested Mr.
"I thought he objected both to the people and the climate." "I advised him to take Ramsby's offer for Yoden. The children needed the country and Harry was not as I like to see him. I think they will be very happy at Yoden. Harry always liked living on the land. He was made to live on it." "I thought he was made to fiddle and sing," said Jane with a little scornful laugh.
And if the head of the house was in fact the father of them all since in two centuries a man might have an indefinite number of children who was the mother or mothers? I was never good at guessing, but the result of my cogitations was one happy idea to ask Yoletta whether she had a living mother or not?
Some of these men I have talked with have assured me that living vizcachas have been found after fourteen days a proof of their great endurance.
He would, for instance, discourse on the improvement of morality to be expected from the establishment of general and close intercourse with the spirits of the departed. The spirits, Captain Johns thought, would consent to associate familiarly with the living if it were not for the unbelief of the great mass of mankind.
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