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Afterwards came poor rachitic girls displaying waxen complexions and slender necks eaten away by sores, and yellow-faced women in the painful stupor which falls on those whose bosoms are devoured by cancers; whilst others, lying down with their mournful eyes gazing heavenwards, seemed to be listening to the throbs of the tumours which obstructed their organs.
Meanwhile, Fra Rinaldo, who had heard everything and had dressed himself at his leisure, took the child in his arms and called out, as soon as he had ordered matters to his mind, saying, 'Harkye, gossip, hear I not my gossip your husband there? 'Ay, sir, answered the simpleton; whereupon, 'Then, said the other, 'come hither. The cuckold went to him and Fra Rinaldo said to him, 'Take your son by the grace of God whole and well, whereas I deemed but now you would not see him alive at vespers; and look you let make a waxen image of his bigness and set it up, to the praise and glory of God, before the statue of our lord St.
"I should like to be of service to you in anything I can, and you don't in the least bore me." That was the truth. Alone with Ingigerd in her cabin, where the vessel's motion was less perceptible, he was sensitive to the full fascination of her presence. The pangs of the ocean crossing had given her sweet girlish face a waxen transparency.
If it be, as I fear, they have met Lucius and seized him in my stead, we must push on at once to save him." "Meinhard could not mistake your persons," returned AEmilius; but while he was speaking, a messenger came up and put into his hand one of the waxen tablets on which notes were written L. AEM. VIC. TO M. AEM. VIC. S. Q., Pardon and bless thy son.
But he assured her he would not be gone more than a quarter of an hour at the outside, and she passively assented. Down he went, disappeared, appeared again, and looked back. Then he again proceeded, and vanished, till, as a small waxen object, she saw him emerge from the nook that had screened him, cross the white fringe of foam, and walk into the undulating mass of blue.
Still the waxen Virgin smiled her Mexican smile, but now she was only seven inches high; and her bead-glass eyes seemed to twinkle with kindliness while the flame of the last expiring taper struggled for life in the earthen socket at her feet. Rain and a blind sky and a bursting sea Feliu and his men, Miguel and Mateo, looked out upon the thundering and flashing of the monstrous tide.
'If a stranger or sojourner with thee be waxen rich, and thy brother be waxen poor beside him, and sell himself unto the stranger... after that he is sold, he may be redeemed; one of his brethren may redeem him. The price was to vary according to the time which had to elapse before the year of Jubilee, when all slaves were necessarily set free.
"You seem to know all about it," says Tita, at which Margaret grows a little red, and wishes, like the parrot, that she had not spoken. "Yes; it is flowers," says Tita. "Such flowers!" cries Margaret. And, indeed, it is a rare basketful of Nature's sweetest gifts that lies before them. Delicate reds, and waxen whites, and the tender greens of the waving fern. "How beautiful!" exclaims Margaret.
The children went outside the stockade and brought green boughs and August wild flowers, bearing the early autumn colors of gold and scarlet. With these they bedded the child in his plank coffin, unafraid of his waxen sleep. Before Croghan went to report to his General, he asked me where we should bury the little fellow. "In the fort, by the southern blockhouse," I answered.
The doll was stark naked now, with waxen face and shoulders, and bulging bags of sawdust for body and legs. "Dick," she said, folding the doll in her arms and kissing it "St. Joseph, I mean the first thing we've got to do is to let people know he's born. Sing that carol I heard you trying over last week the one that says 'Far and far I carry it." So I sang, while she rocked the babe:
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