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The topic of 'The King versus the Jesuits' was one of the first they touched upon, Sergius Thord relating for the benefit of all his associates, how he had found Pasquin Leroy reading by lamplight the newspaper which reported his Majesty's refusal to grant any portion of Crown lands to the priests, and which also spoke of 'Thord's Rabble.
Bernhoff's headquarters were close by, so that he had but to wait barely a quarter of an hour before that personage, the same who had before been summoned to the presence of the King, appeared. To him Perousse handed a slip of paper, on which he had written the words 'Pasquin Leroy. "Do you know that name?" he asked. General Bernhoff looked at it attentively.
Brava!" shouted the men, becoming more and more excited as their eyes followed the flash of the dagger she held, now directed towards them, now shaken aloft, and again waved threateningly from side to side, or pointed at her own bosom, while her little feet twinkled over the floor in a maze of intricate and perfectly performed steps; and "Brava!" cried Pasquin Leroy, as breathless, but still glowing and bright with her exertions, she suddenly out of her own impulse, dropped on one knee before him with the glittering dagger pointed straight at his heart!
He had gained, Murphy observes, no inconsiderable reputation by the Champion; his position as a brilliant political playwright had been long ago assured by Pasquin; the party to whose patriotic interests he had devoted so much energy and wit was now rapidly approaching power; and two years of eager application had equipped him with 'no incompetent share of learning' for a profession in which, we are told, he aspired to eminence.
'Pasquin Leroy' had then become her closest comrade, always at hand, and ever ready to fulfil her slightest behest; while from his ardent and eloquent glances, the occasional lingering pressure of his hand, and the hastily murmured words of tenderness which she could not misunderstand, she knew that he loved her.
We walked across the city, and through the Piazza de Navona, where we stopped to look at one of Bernini's absurd fountains, of which the water makes but the smallest part, a little squirt or two amid a prodigious fuss of gods and monsters. Thence we passed by the poor, battered-down torso of Pasquin, and came, by devious ways, to the bridge of St.
To see you weep is the only thing that could possibly unman me, and make even 'Pasquin Leroy' lose his nerve!" He approached her, and sought to take her hand, but she turned away from him, and he saw her bosom heave with a passion of repressed weeping. "Lotys!" he then said, with exceeding gentleness; "What is this? Why are you unhappy?
When Leo's short-lived successor, the gloomy Fleming, Adrian VI., who was the author of the proposal to destroy Pasquin, despatched his nuncio to the diet of Nuremberg to oppose the progress of Luther, he told him in his instructions to "avow frankly that God has permitted this schism and this persecution on account of the sins of men, and, above all, of those of the priests and the prelates of the Church."
Yes, I have always hated you! even when I found you had played the part of 'Pasquin Leroy, and had worked for our Cause, and had helped to make what is now called my 'fame'! I hated you, because through it all, and whatever you did for me, or for others, it seemed to me you had never known hunger and cold and want! never known what it was to have love snatched away from you!
"You wild soul!" he said; "Would you starve then, rather than accept a king's bounty?" "I would!" answered Paul. "Look you, my brave Pasquin! Read back over all the centuries, and see the way in which these puppets we call kings have rewarded the greatest thinkers of their times! Is it anywhere recorded that the antique virgin, Elizabeth of England, ever did anything for Shakespeare?
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