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What is wanted?" asked the royal maiden, roused from her sleep. "It is I, little sister," said the prince, "I, an emperor's son, who have stood under your window three days for love of you." The princess did not even approach the window, but replied in a prudent tone: "Go back home by the way you came; may flowers spring up before you and thorns remain behind."
When he ascended on his knees the famous Scala Santa, the holy staircase near the Lateran Palace supposed to have belonged to Pilate's house in Jerusalem, down whose marble steps our Saviour walked, wearing the crown of thorns and the emblems of mock royalty which the soldiers had put upon him he seemed to hear a voice whispering to him the words, "The just shall live by faith."
I have no mother. You are both father and mother to me. Will you not crown me with the myrtle-wreath?" "Yes," said he, with a sigh, "I will place the myrtle on your brow, and God grant it may not turn to a crown of thorns! Go now, my child, adorn thyself, and leave me alone to pray for you." He greeted her smilingly, and accompanied her to the door.
I waited, in the expectation that it would shortly die, but it suddenly rose, and walked slowly into the thorns.
I am sorry to have a tie to a world that for me is ever sown with thorns. "You will call this an ill-humored letter, when, in fact, it is the strongest proof of affection I can give to dread to lose you. has taken such pains to convince me that you must and ought to stay, that it has inconceivably depressed my spirits. You have always known my opinion.
He wished to strengthen his power by engaging the coöperation of the still formidable energies of the horde at Kezan, and accordingly married, quite hurriedly, the daughter of the czar of the horde. But the regal diadem proved to him but a crown of thorns.
Harvey's boys told their cousin, that neither man nor beast could get through such a hedge; and that if a man were placed on the top, he could walk on the vines without sinking down, they were so strong and close. "It would be uneasy travelling, though," added John; "for his feet would be torn to pieces by these spiky thorns."
When we shall gather grapes from thorns, and figs from thistles; when fields of grain shall spring up from the offal in the bye-ways of our wicked cities, and roses bloom in the fat churchyards that they cherish; then we may look for natural humanity, and find it growing from such seed.
"Clouds and sunshine," he exclaimed, "flowers and thorns; such is the union nature loves. And is it not well? Clouds temper the dazzle of the sunbeams, thorns protect the tender flowers. Have you read many of these books?" he asked, with a sudden transition. "A great many," I answered, unspeakably relieved to hear him resume his natural tone and manner; "too many for my mind's good." "How so?
When she turned around, her features were as fixed as if they belonged to some sculptured slab from Persepolis. "Pray don't think me weak and fickle, but indeed, Mrs. Waul, some of my laurels gash like a crown of thorns. Tell the waiter to show this visitor up, after five minutes, and then I wish you to come back and sit with your knitting yonder, at the end of the room.
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