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And she held up to her eyes, as though fascinated by it, the parchment scroll, and read aloud in a voice so awe-struck that it did not seem to be her voice at all: 'He who shall violate this tomb, he who shall steal this amulet, hallowed as a love-token between me and my dead wife, he who shall dare to lay a sacrilegious hand upon this cross, stands cursed by God, cursed by love, and cursed by me, Philip Aylwin, lying here.
But at that time I did not understand it; the death of my mother seemed to me one of the most cruel manifestations of universal injustice, and called forth a new stream of useless and sacrilegious curses. I do not know whether I ought to tire the attention of the reader with the story of other events of a similar nature.
"'Lieutenant, said I, winking, 'will you permit me to send a ball into that coffin? "'Please yourself about that, young man, said he. "Here the old woman recommenced howling again and called upon all the saints in the calendar to punish us for my sacrilegious design. "'Shoot a dead body, said I, 'where's the harm? Besides, what is that salt there for?
"The death of the sacrilegious, my friends," replied Paganel. "The avenging flames are under our feet. Let us open a way for them!" "What! make a volcano!" cried John Mangles. "Yes, an impromptu volcano, whose fury we can regulate. There are plenty of vapors ready to hand, and subterranean fires ready to issue forth. We can have an eruption ready to order."
For instance, last night, before she went to bed, she went on her knees and said her prayers; as she prays, so La Louve says, she must have a right to pray!" "What a strange observation!" "These poor creatures have no sentiment of religion, yet they never utter here a sacrilegious or impious word.
"To Naples, Signorina, and nearly to the Antico Giuseppone coming back." "But we had to do a lot of tacking," said Artois. "Mon Dieu! That boy is smoking one of my cigarettes! You sacrilegious little creature! You have been robbing my box!" Gaspare's eyes followed Artois' to Ruffo, who was watching them attentively, but who now looked suddenly sleepy. "It belongs to Madre."
The account states that the act, whatever it was, that Timo had directed him to perform, instead of being, as he supposed, a means of propitiating the favor of the divinity, was sacrilegious and impious; and Miltiades, as he approached the temple, was struck suddenly with a mysterious and dreadful horror of mind, which wholly overwhelmed him.
"Beware of that!" exclaimed Monteith; "for who is there that would adhere to the prohibition as I have done-as you will do? and besides, as I have no doubt it contains holy relics, who knows what new calamities a sacrilegious look might bring upon our already devoted country?"
Another was the Pirates' Tree, a great walnut, under the roots of which many of the inhabitants firmly believed that the famous Blackbeard and his band had buried many pots of gold, silver, and precious stones; and these pots would have been dug up had it not been for the fear that the spirit of the savage pirate, who had been buried with the treasure, would have been the first thing to meet the eyes of the sacrilegious disturber of the pirate treasure vault.
It seemed to be written on a leaf torn from some old memorandum-book, and, to prevent sacrilegious trifling, had been sealed with six broken wafers. Opening it almost tenderly, the master read as follows: RESPECTED SIR: When you read this, I am run away. Never to come back. But don't you give anything to Clytie Morper. Don't you dair to.
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