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At the present moment a familiar passage came into my head: "When one that was in great anxiety of mind, often wavering between fear and hope, did once humbly prostrate himself in prayer, and said, 'O if I knew that I should persevere! he presently heard within him an answer from GOD, which said, 'If thou didst know it, what would'st thou do?
"No, but I believe myself more powerful in the name of the holy Trinity, and by my sacred character." "If thou art more powerful than I, then prevent me from telling thee unpalatable truths. Thou art very vain of thy beard, thou art combing and dressing it ten times a day, and thou would'st not shave half of it to get me out of this body. Cut off thy beard, and I promise to come out."
"Whatever you command me, madam. I can, do nothing of my own accord. Shall I bring your daughter here? Say so, and it shall be done." "No thou would'st ensnare me," she replied. "I well know thou hast no power over her. Thou would'st place some phantasm before me. I would see her, but not through thy agency."
So entire was the abstraction of the Doge, at the moment, that the usher entered unheeded, and had stood in respectful attention to his sovereign's pleasure, near a minute before he was seen. "What would'st thou, Marco?" demanded the prince, when his eye rose from the page.
Then, as the curtains of his tent were drawn aside, the prefect started in surprise, for there before him stood, not the rugged form of a British fighting man, but a fair young girl, who bent her graceful head in reverent obeisance to the youthful representative of the Imperial Caesars. "What would'st thou with me, maiden?" asked the prefect.
They had been married a year, and on the morning of their wedding anniversary, the husband looked askance at her neat and comely person, with some shade of remorse, as he said, "Mary, we've had no holiday since we were wed; and, only that I have not a penny in the world, we'd take a jaunt down to the village, to see thee mother." "Would'st like to go, John?
Oh how my soul would hang upon those lips! speak on and yet, methinks, he should not kneel so why are you afraid, Sir? indeed, I cannot hurt you. "Hunts. Sweet innocence, I'm sure thou would'st not. "Reg. Art thou not he to whom I told my name, and didst thou not say thine was "Hunts. Oh blessed be the name that then thou told'st it has been ever since my charm, and kept me from distraction.
'Assuredly, my lord, when he stoops to recover them so gracefully as doth the marquis of Worcester. 'What, then, would'st thou in my house at midnight, Mr. Heywood? asked the marquis courteously. 'Nothing save mine own, my lord. I came but to look for a stolen mare. 'What! thou takest Raglan for a den of thieves? 'I found the mare in your lordship's stable.
But would'st thou know the beauty of holiness? go alone on some week-day, borrowing the keys of good Master Sexton, traverse the cool aisles of some country church: think of the piety that has kneeled there the congregations, old and young, that have found consolation there the meek pastor the docile parishioner.
Only the strange pilgrim had vanished in the confusion; and the Prince never contradicted the Grand Master in his indignation that a Moslem hound should have assumed such a disguise. "This favour only, that thou would'st stand out of my sunshine."
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