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"Come, come," said he, "you look as if you had walked far; come, take a bowl of milk. And the white-handed angel did meekly obey, and handed me me, the vagabond, a bowl of bubbling milk, which I could hardly drink down, for gazing at the dew on her lips. As I live, I could have married that charmer on the spot! She was by far the most beautiful rosebud I had yet seen in England.
Also your black-muzzled kings of Velasquez, and Vandyke's long-haired and white-handed ones; and Rubens' riders in those handsome boots. Pass such shadows of them as you can summon, rapidly before your memory then look at this St. Louis.
It is some miles distant from the foot of the mountain, snugly sheltered in one of the loveliest valleys between Coniston and Torver. No one knows when the first stones of this house were laid. The Sandals were in Sandal-Side when the white-handed, waxen-faced Edward was building Westminster Abbey, and William the Norman was laying plans for the crown of England.
The one, though a recluse at the beginning of her career, came more into actual contact with people and things than did the smooth-faced, white-handed mother superior in all the course of her calm and unruffled existence. Catherine of Bologna was a model nun, a paragon of humility, devotion, and holiness, but she was something quite apart from the stirring life of the time.
But how could he get the strength? ... At writing, too, he tried to work; as you know, he could do that work capitally, but his hands shook, and he couldn't hold the pen properly. ... He was always finding fault with himself; "I'm a white-handed poor creature," he would say; "I've never done any good to anybody, never helped, never laboured!"
The two high-caste religions of that day were white-handed Unitarianism and ruffled-shirt Episcopalianism. What called itself "society" was chiefly distributed between them. Within less than fifty years a social revolution has taken place which has somewhat changed the relation between these and other worshipping bodies.
"Your hate or your love is a matter of equal indifference to me," returned the young girl, proudly. This remark made him furious with wrath. "You love that white-handed fellow whom I met the last time I was here. That's what makes you so indifferent to me!" he cried, hoarsely. "Speak! Is it not so?" "Yes," replied Bernardine, cresting her beautiful head, proudly.
You relieve my mind immensely. You see, she is always so sweet and charming. But then she could not be anything else, and it may really mean nothing. Do you really think I may hope?" "'White-handed Hope, thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings," she quoted, with a smile. "That's Margaret," he murmured rapturously.
Or rather white-handed," flushed the Master of the House for some quite unaccountable reason. "To be perfectly accurate," he explained conscientiously, "he was caught with a pair of of " Delicately he spelt out the word. "With a pair of c-o-r-s-e-t-s rolled up in his hand. But inside the roll it seemed there was a solid silver very elaborate carving set which the Parish had recently presented.
"'O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings, And thou unblemish'd form of Chastity! I see ye visibly, and now believe That he the Supreme Good, to whom all things ill Are but as slavish officers of vengeance, Would send a glistering guardian, if need were, To keep my life and honour unassail'd. Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud.
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