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Here was a picturesque peasant-priest from the province of Ormidia, who had left his work in the fields and was moving among the crowd with a slow dignity of motion and the mien of some antique statue with sheep-skin garments of no shape, nor fashion, nor color, to mark his date his hair flowing in loose waves to the throat, from under the high, conical hat, his full curling beard and moustache obscuring the lines of the face and intensifying its impassiveness only in the eyes, without curiosity, a mild look of question at the strangeness of the ways and sights of cities such as some shepherd-god might wear, reserving judgment.
A thrill went through the girl's nerves as she saw the rough brown head of the peasant rising above the sheepskin coat that the shepherd-god had worn. Unless miracle had made another like it, it was the very same, even to the peculiar jagged edge where it met in front. Antoli's expression was foolish and ashamed, but at Giacomo's bidding be began a recital of his recent experiences.
The life which has brought us that thought of a Shepherd-God has been long enough; and the days which have been so expanded as to contain a continuous series of His benefits and protections need never be remembered as 'few, whatsoever be the arithmetic that is applied to them. The other contradiction is equally eloquent and significant.
Evadne reposed on the steps of the temple, and fixedly gazed upon the god. Her fancy endowed the firm hand with an unbent bow; then the figure seemed to pause in the chase, and listen for the baying of the hounds. Then she imaged a shepherd's staff, and the shepherd-god waited tenderly for the voice of a lost lamb.