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And having paralysed his arm, Chyavana recited sacred hymns, and made offering on the fire. His object gained, he now attempted to destroy that celestial. Then by the virtue of that saint's ascetic energy, an evil spirit came into being, a huge demon, Mada by name, of great strength and gigantic proportions. And his body was incapable of being measured either by demons or by gods.
Towards the east she had come into contact with the Mannai, or Minni, about Lake Urumiyeh, with the Harkhar in the Van region and in north-western Kurdistan, with the Bartsu or Persians and the Mada or Medes in the country east of Zagros, the modern province of Ardelan, and with the Tsimri, or Zimri, in Upper Luristan.
Mada! do you know a more disgusting, more humiliating sight than the sagging of the skin on a neck that was once like marble? than a mouth visibly losing its form? the slender shoulders we have adored, broadening into massivity? all the fine spiritual delicacy of youth being touched to heaviness? all the barbarous cruelty, in short, with which, before our eyes, time treats the woman who is no longer young.
Throwing a little water at him, he paralysed the chief of the deities with his thunderbolt and mountain. As the result of the religious rite he had commenced, he created a terrible Asura hostile to Indra. Made of the libations he had poured on the sacred fire, that Asura was called Mada, of mouth gaping wide. Even such was the Asura that the great ascetic created with the aid of Mantras.
But now, you understand, Mada, that I think a man makes a good exchange of career, and success, and other such accidents of his material existence, for the right to touch these hands at will. The one thing necessary is, that he be fit for the post. I demand of him that he be a gourmand, a connoisseur in beauty. And it's here, mind you, that I have doubts of our friend. Is it clear to you?"
A wise man, therefore, should not give way to mada, for the accompaniments of mada are censurable. Friendship is said to possess six indications: firstly, friends delight in the prosperity of friends, and secondly, are distressed at their adversity. If any one asketh for anything which is dear to his heart, but which should not be asked for, a true friend surely giveth away even that.
You shall have early news, I promise you." Madeleine heard him go down the stair, whistling the ROSE OF SHARON. But he could not have been half-way to the bottom, when he turned and came back. Holding her door ajar, he stuck a laughing face into the room. "Upon my word, Mada, I congratulate you! It's a colossal idea." But Madeleine had had enough of him. "I'm glad it pleases you. Now go, go!
You've only to look about you, here, with unbiassed eyes, to see which race the prettiest girls belong to. But never mind! You only launch out in this way that you may not be obliged to discuss Maurice Guest. I know you. I can read you like a book." "You are not very old ... or ugly ... or abnormal, Mada." She smiled in spite of herself. "And are we not friends, pray?" "Something that way.
In this mood it's one, in that, the other; and the silly world bleats it after them, like sheep." "Well, if you wish me to put it more plainly: if what you say were true, vice would be condoned." "Vice!!" he cried with derision, and sat up and faced her. "Vice! my dear Mada! sweet, innocent child! ... No, no.
A painter's, if he could reproduce the trick she has of smiling entirely with her eyes and eyebrows. And then her hands! Mada, I wonder you other women don't weep for envy of them. She has only to raise them, to pass them over her forehead, or to finger at her hair, and the world is hers. Do you really think a man asks soul of a woman with such eyes and hand as those? Good God, no!
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