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Updated: June 16, 2025
He it was who introduced the custom, ever since religiously observed, of ringing the Angelus three times a day. He watched so carefully over the public and private interests of both French and Indians, that all looked on him as a father, and although continually appealed to for decisions between rival claimants, his integrity was never called in question.
His pictures or his sermons, Lucy?" demanded Miss Vance, with a contemptuous shrug. Lucy without reply walked out to the inn garden and seated herself in a shady corner. There Mr. Perry found her just as the first stroke of the angelus sounded on the air. Her book lay unopened on her lap. He walked slowly up to her and stopped, breathing hard, as if he had been running. "It is evening now.
In nearly all of Millet's pictures people are busy doing something. Either hands or feet, and sometimes both hands and feet, are in motion. They are pictures of action. In the Angelus, however, people are resting from labor; it is a picture of repose. The busy hands cease their work a moment, and the spirit rises in prayer.
They were given at spare moments in the sacristy, standing up, hurriedly, between a baptism and a burial; or else the curé, if he had not to go out, sent for his pupil after the Angelus. They went up to his room and settled down; the flies and moths fluttered round the candle.
The "Angelus" was sold for the sum of eight hundred thousand francs a larger amount than was ever before paid for a single canvas. It is idle to say that no picture is worth such a sum. Anything is worth what some one else will pay for it.
The ruined chateaux, tree-embosomed " Momma paused. "The gray church spires, from which at eventide the Angelus comes pealing or stealing," she continued. "Perhaps 'stealing' is better." "Above all the poplars the poplars are very characteristic, dear. And the women toilers in the sunset fields garnering up the golden grain.
For the brass band in the Casino gardens behind me was playing with a sort of passionate levity some ramping tune from a Parisian comic opera, and while this was going on I heard also the bugles on the hills above, that told of terrible loyalties and men always arming in the gate of France; and I heard also, fainter than these sounds and through them all, the Angelus.
If Jason is to have the golden fleece he must pass between the dangerous rocks, he must encounter the dragon, yoke to the plow the fire-breathing bulls, and subdue a regiment of armed men. If Joseph had not been Egypt's prisoner, he would never have been Egypt's governor. If Millet had not passed through the valley of sorrow, he could never have painted the "Angelus."
He could feel that she was coming, that she was promising to delay no longer; that she said to him, 'Here I am, receive me! Thrice a day when the Angelus rang out at break of dawn, in the fulness of midday, and at the gentle fall of twilight he bared his head and said an Ave with a glance around him as if to ascertain whether the bell were not at last announcing Mary's coming.
Meanwhile the kneeling folk repeated the Angelus, praying for the eternal repose of the sinner; the Judge walked about among the guests and the throng of villagers and invited all to the banquet at Soplicowo. But on the bench of turf before the house two old men had taken their seats, each holding on his knees a tankard full of mead.
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