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I was just saying them over and over for lonesome. It's it's such a big night in here all by myself." Mrs. Patterson gave her a good-night kiss and turned the covers back for her to snuggle in bed. And there wonder of wonders! there lay in the bed a whiterobed figure a dear, beautiful, smiling baby doll. Anne looked at it for one breathless minute and then clasped it close.
What had especially prejudiced them against this beautiful creature he knew not; but he easily discovered that they were hostile to the accused, and if they should utter the verdict "guilty", and only two Arabs should echo it, the girl's fate was sealed. And what was the declaration which that whiterobed old man among the witnesses desired to make the venerable and learned Horapollo?
Now down the long aisle walked a single whiterobed figure. It was the abbess. "What shall we do, Mother?" said Rosamund to her. "Follow me, both of you," she said, and they followed her through the nave to the altar rails, and at a sign from her knelt down. Now they saw that on either side of the altar stood a Christian priest.
What had especially prejudiced them against this beautiful creature he knew not; but he easily discovered that they were hostile to the accused, and if they should utter the verdict "guilty", and only two Arabs should echo it, the girl's fate was sealed. And what was the declaration which that whiterobed old man among the witnesses desired to make the venerable and learned Horapollo?
Godwin knew him well, for the face was the face carven on the tomb in Stangate church, and he wore the blood-red cross upon his mail, and the D'Arcy Death's-head was on his shield, and in his hand shone a naked sword. "Is this the soul of my son?" he asked of the whiterobed watchers. "If so, how died he?" Then the angel at his foot answered: "He died, red sword aloft, fighting a good fight."
What had especially prejudiced them against this beautiful creature he knew not; but he easily discovered that they were hostile to the accused, and if they should utter the verdict "guilty", and only two Arabs should echo it, the girl's fate was sealed. And what was the declaration which that whiterobed old man among the witnesses desired to make the venerable and learned Horapollo?
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