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Desiderius seems, indeed, to have been a large factor in influencing the great physician to write his books rather than devote himself to oral teaching, since the circulation of his writing would confer so much more of benefit on a greater number of people.
This youth of twenty-three had annihilated her just as calmly, as he would have burnt that piece of paper of which they were speaking. Desiderius quietly produced his pocket-book and rummaged for the fatal slips of paper. "Never mind. I believe it," panted Madame Bálnokházy, whose face in that moment was like a furious Medusa head. "I believe what you say.
Sárvölgyi tremblingly strove to raise himself on his quivering hand. He thought his last hour had come. "There is none!" answered Desiderius to himself. "This fellow kept his hatred till the last day, and when the final anniversary came, he actually sought out his victim to remind him of his awful obligation.
The young girl was not so transfixed by the subject of the tale as by the speaker. Desiderius in the heat of passion, was twice as handsome as he was otherwise. His every feature was lighted with noble passion. Who knows perhaps the beautiful girl was thinking it would be no very pleasant future to be the bride of Gyáli after such a scandal!
As Desiderius had asked for Fanny's hand, it was only proper that he should take his bride away from her parents' house. One week later the whole Áronffy family started to fetch the bride; only Desiderius' mother remained at home. In the little house in Prince's Avenue the same old faces all awaited them, only they were ten years older.
The passes of the Alps, and the walls of Pavia, were the only defence of the Lombards; the former were surprised, the latter were invested, by the son of Pepin; and after a blockade of two years, Desiderius, the last of their native princes, surrendered his sceptre and his capital.
There can be little doubt that the pope fostered the sleepless disaffection of the dukes, but when their revolt matured Desiderius was able to crush it, laying waste the Pentapolis on his way. He was then wise enough to visit Rome and to arrange a peace which was only once broken during pope Paul's pontificate: in 761 when Desiderius attacked Sinigaglia.
Pepin soon after died, and was succeeded by his son Charles, the same who, on account of the magnitude and success of his enterprises, was called Charlemagne, or Charles the Great. Theodore I. now succeeded to the papacy, and discord arising between him and Desiderius, the latter besieged him in Rome.
Desiderius did not require any further enlightenment on that point. He thought he understood all quite well. Mistress Boris meanwhile had a fine job at her house. "He was a fool who conceived the idea of ordering a banquet for an indefinite time: not to know whether he, for whom one must wait, will come at one, at two, at three, in the evening, or after midnight."
In was after More left Oxford that he met the man who became his dearest friend. This was Desiderius Erasmus, a learned Dutchman. He was eleven years older than More and he could speak no English, but that did not prevent them becoming friends, as they both could speak Latin easily and well. They had much in common.
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