The Strolling Saint
Raphael Sabatini
Raphael Sabatini. The Strolling Saint
BOOK ONE. THE OBLATE
CHAPTER I. NOMEN ET OMEN
In seeking other than in myself--as men will--the causes of my tribulations, I have often inclined to lay the blame of much of the ill that befell me, and the ill that in my sinful life I did to others, upon those who held my mother at the baptismal font and concerted that she should bear the name of Monica.
There are in life many things wwhich, in themselves, seeming to the vulgar and the heedless to be trivial and without consequence, may yet be causes pregnant of terrible effects, mainsprings of Destiny itself.
Похожие новости:
The priest leaned over
I remembered Giuliana s
Thus awhile in utter
Indeed indeed the Cardinal
The house was vast
Into the spacious gardens
So thought I then
That is to say
I slammed the door
Gonzaga conducted us to
And when once or
You seem to be
He was lying upon
When he had done
It may be that
Let me again beg
His keen eyes went
It was God s
I reached the door
They were mostly or
Indeed indeed Galeotto applauded
So that all that
All that concerned him
They shook hands and
And when I defied
|