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His manner was that of invocation; changing it, he resumed: "Thou hast demanded of us where the Christ should be born." The king bowed, though the evil eyes remained fixed upon the sage's face. "That is the question." "Then, O king, speaking for myself, and all my brethren here, not one dissenting, I say, in Bethlehem of Judea."
They were crying bitterly, and to the children's great surprise several of them had grown enormously tall and others equally stout. They came straight up to the Sage's hut, and with tears streaming down their faces beseeched him to help them.
Gyp had his heart; no one in the world would ever take it from her! And in the chair where she had sat last night conjuring up memories, he too now conjured. How he had loved her, did love her! She would always be what she was and had been to him. And the sage's mouth seemed to twist before him with the words: "Quite so, my dear! But the heart's very funny very capacious!"
"Not so much so as at first we might imagine," answered Mordaunt: "the few smooth all paths for the many. The precepts of knowledge it is difficult to extricate from error but, once discovered, they gradually pass into maxims; and thus what the sage's life was consumed in acquiring becomes the acquisition of a moment to posterity.
him; for, in the East, wisdom is held to consist less in a display of the sage's own inventive talents, than in his ready memory and happy application of and reference to "that which is written." Ashamed at being surprised in a womanlike expression of sorrow, Sir Kenneth dashed his tears indignantly aside, and again busied himself with his dying favourite.
I swear I had that money when I left Sage's. I came in here and then I went straight to the bank." "And after you got there?" "Oh, when I got there I found no less than three men, not countin' old Mrs. Emmeline Bartlett, in my room waitin' to see me.
Sage's lawyers was an intimate friend of mine, and he told me this story. Sage had been persuaded by his fellow directors in the Western Union Telegraph Company to make a will. As he was attorney for the company, Sage came to him to draw it. Nothing is so absorbing as the life of Wall Street. It is more abused, misunderstood, and envied than any place in the country.
Now, as he listened to the sage's voice, he discerned truths of a higher and purer compass; he grasped a revolutionary metaphysic which lifted his mind above coarse, material conditions into a region of absolute, unqualified convictions, untrammelled by the errors of the senses.
Be patient, meek, Not puffed with doctrine! Nothing can be known; Naught grasped for certain: sense is circumscribed; The intellect is weak, and life is short!" He ceased, and mused a little while we wept. "And yet be nowise downcast; seek, pursue! The lover's rapture and the sage's gain Less in attainment lie than in approach. Look forward to the time which is to come!
Ralph laid his hand on Ursula's shoulder and said: "May the Sage's saw be sooth!"
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