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Gretz has been my academy, my sanatorium, my heaven of innocent pleasures. If millions are offered me, I wave them back: Retro, Sathanas! Evil one, begone! Fix your mind on my example; despise riches, avoid the debasing influence of cities. Hygiene hygiene and mediocrity of fortune these be your watchwords during life!
So wrought upon was he by the welter of his emotions, by that fierce strife between his conscience and his egotism, that he came abruptly to his feet, a cry upon his lips. "Vade retro, Sathanas!" Old Nicholas, looking up abruptly, saw the lad's face, waxen, his brow bedewed with sweat. "Master Lionel! Master Lionel!" he cried, his small bright eyes concernedly scanning his young master's face.
But, after all, it doesn't matter much, as there's a clergyman present!" And her blue eyes. danced mischievously; "Isn't it lucky you came? You can stop that curse on its way and send it back like a homing pigeon, can't you? What do you say when you do it? 'Retro me Sathanas, or something of that kind, isn't it? Whatever it is, say it now, won't you?" Walden laughed, he could not help laughing.
He then informed her of the fears entertained by the Club, sworn to watch over and protect her, regarding Farina's arts. 'And what fear you? said Margarita. 'We fear, sweet mistress, he may be in league with Sathanas, replied Dietrich. 'Truly, then, said Margarita, 'of all the youths in Cologne he is the least like his confederate.
Then said Peter: I charge and conjure you angels of Sathanas, which bear him in the air, by the name of our Lord Jesu Christ, that ye bear ne sustain him no more, but let him fall to the earth. And anon they let him fall to the ground and brake his neck and head, and he died there forthwith.
Sathanas and Mammon are near akin." The porters, at the same time, ranged their load on the floor. "I I," stammered the surprised scrivener "I cannot guess what you mean, sir." "Only that I have brought you the redemption-money on the part of Lord Glenvarloch, in discharge of a certain mortgage over his family inheritance.
Vade retro, Sathanas, I will shake off the dust of my feet against thee," another arrow stuck in his frock "thou shalt share the fate of Sodom, yea of Gomorrha; in manus inimici trado te;" by this time his words were inaudible; and he departed, not having accomplished much good, but having nevertheless informed Redwald of two great facts the first, that Elfric's return was blazed abroad; the second, that his own identity was more than suspected.
'My son! exclaimed Monk Gregory with silencing hand, 'thou didst not well to leave me contending against the tongues of doubt. Answer me not. The maiden! and what weighed she in such a scale? No more! I am punished. Well speaks the ancient proverb: "Beware the back-blows of Sathanas!" I, that thought to have vanquished him! Vanity has wrecked me, in this world and the next.
They began to mark, each, whom he had cudgelled. A noise of something swiftly in motion made them alert. A roebuck rushed down one of the hills, and scampered across the sward. The fine beast went stretching so rapidly away as to be hardly distinct. 'Sathanas once more! they murmured, and drew together. The name passed through them like a watchword.
Love that does not spurn the world when lovers curtain themselves is a love is it not so? that seems to the unwhipped, scoffing world to go slinking into basiation's obscurity, instead of on a glorious march behind the screen. The act of seeming put them both above the world, said retro Sathanas!
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