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Janus was working cautiously at the captive foot. "Raise her a little. Whoa! Hold her there." It was not an easy task for the two girls to follow orders in that instance, but they did, their faces growing red under the strain. Hazel was moaning. "Miss Elting; the smelling salts!" called Harriet. The guardian passed them up, Jane grasping the bottle and placing it under Hazel's nostrils.
There are twain gates of War, so runs their name, consecrate in grim Mars' sanctity and terror. An hundred bolts of brass and masses of everlasting iron shut them fast, and Janus the guardian never sets foot from their threshold.
One was born while the first Punic war was still raging, and the other in the year 235, when the gates of the temple of Janus were, for the first time in centuries, closed in token that Rome was at peace with the world.
For it had been learned in that innermost Council, and told no farther than was needful, that Ferdinand of Naples was intriguing to draw Janus into an alliance with a princess of his house; it was also known, by that singular penetration in which Venice had no equal, that the new Archbishop of Nicosia, Alvise Fabrici, was an agent for Ferdinand, secretly working to further his ends in Cyprus; and finally in sign of the willingness of Janus to break faith with Venice, came the rumor of some coldness toward Andrea Cornaro, who had hitherto been his fast friend.
But I heard His Excellency's speech as he stood bowing in the doorway when the guards led Tristan forth a model of courtesy one would have said for I could see him through a parting in the arras though I risked my life in standing there 'Her Majesty' said the Bernardini very fair of speech 'doth surely owe such escort to the Illustrissimo, the Seigneur de Giblet, for the attention he would fain have offered in his own person to King Janus, in his Episcopal Palace before he wore the crown of the realm. And the Seigneur de Giblet, not to be outdone being Cyprian answers him very proud and cold 'Is your Excellency ever so faithful to reward a service contemplated, but not achieved? For he had meant to smother the King in his sleep that night, if Janus had not escaped to Egypt."
"Oh, no, sir; it isn't, not if he did not carry the stuff away with him. If he did not carry it away with him, what could he have done with it?" She regarded Mr. Grubb inquiringly. "I swum! I don't know," declared Janus, looking deeply puzzled. "Nor do I, but I propose to find out. Is there such a thing as a lantern here, Mr. Grubb?" He shook his head.
As the safety of the city was held to be connected with its conservation, the neglect of the virgins, if they let it go out, was severely punished, and the fire was rekindled from the rays of the sun. Liber is another Latin name of Bacchus; and Mulciber of Vulcan. Janus was the porter of heaven. He opens the year, the first month being named after him.
Not a sound could be heard now from the pursuing guide. "Hoo-e-e-e-e!" called Harriet. But no answering call came back to her. She still kept her position until the guardian called to her. Harriet then walked slowly back to her trembling companions. Jane and Miss Elting were no more frightened than Harriet. They did not know, however, what had occurred to disturb Janus, and could only surmise.
Brigade headquarters joined the Bucks Hussars headquarters in the wadi Janus half a mile south-east of Yebnah, where Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. F. Cripps commanding the Bucks Hussars had, with splendid judgment, already commenced a valuable reconnaissance, the Dorset and Berks Yeomanry being halted in a depression out of sight a few hundred yards behind.
I feel like a great lord, never having had a house before. The "London," I fear, falls off. I linger among its creaking rafters, like the last rat; it will topple down if they don't get some buttresses. They have pulled down three, Hazlitt, Procter, and their best stay, kind, light-hearted Wainewright, their Janus. The best is, neither of our fortunes is concerned in it. I heard of you from Mr.
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