The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-19


the shield was supported on the dexter and
sinister side by two wyverns, or; and sur
mounted by the silver helmet with its blue
| feathers, embossed in gold placed frontwise.
anu closed by eleven bars, which belong
only to dukes, marshals of France, titled
lords and heads of sovereign corporations.
And for motto these words: Isl Dieu volt,
il vueiln
Little by little, from having seen him
piercing toe monster with his lance, whilst
! the kings daughter raised her clasped
| hands in supplication, Apgelique became
enamored of St. George. He was Ter hero
AT the distance where she was, she could
not well distinguish the figures, and she
looked at them as if in the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
of dream; the young girl was slight, was
a blonde, and in short had a face not like
her own; while the saint was frank and no
| b!e-looking, with the beauty of an archangel
1t was as if she herself had just been saved,
and she could have kissed his hands with
gratitude. And to this adventure, of which
she dreamed confussdly of meeting on the
border OF lake, and of being rescued from
a great danger by young man more beau
tlful than the day. was added the recollec-
ton of her excursion to the chateau of
HautecNur, and a calling up to view of the
feudal donjon, in its original state, peopled
with the noble lords of olden times.
the arms glistened like the stars on sum-
mer nights; she knew them well, she read
them easily, with their sonorous words, for
she was so in the habit of embroidering
heraldic symbols. There was Jean v, VINO
stopped from door to door in the town
ravaged by the plague, and went i'll to kiss
the lips of the dying, and cured them by
saying, Isl Dieu volt, il vueil." And Fell
clan Ill, who forewarned that a severe
illness prevented Philippe lie Bel from going
| to Palestine, went there in his place. bare
footed and holding candle in his hand, and
for that, he had the right of quarterlng the
arms of Jerusalem with his own. Other
and yet other histories came to her mind,
| especially those of the ladies of Hautecoeur,
the Happy Dead, as they were called in
the legend. In that family the women die
| ypung, in the midst of some great happi-
ness. Sometimes two or three generations
would be spared then suddenly death
would appear, smiling, as with gentle hands
he carried away the daughter or the wife of a
Hautecour, the oldest of them being
scarcely 20 years of age, at the moment
| when they were at the height of earthly
love and bliss. For instance, Laurette,
daughter of Raoul l., on the evening of her
betrothal to her cousin Richard, who lived
in the castle, having seated herself at her
window in the tower of David saw him at
his window in the tower of Charlemagne,
aud thinking she heard him call her, as at
that moment ray of moonlight seemed to
throw a bridge between them, she walked
toward him. But when in the middle, she
made In her haste a false step and over
passed the ray, she fell and was crushed at
the foot of the tower. So since that day,
each night when the moon is bright and
clear, she can be seen walking in the air
around the chateau, which is bauhed III
white by the silent touch of her immense
robe Then Balbine, wife of Herve VII,
thought for six months that her husband
Id ILL.
to give up all hope, she watched for him
daily from the top of the donjon. and when
at last she saw him one morning on the
highway, returning to his home, she ran
down quickly to meet him, but was 50
overcome with JOY that she fell dead at the
entrance of the castle. Even at this day,
notwithstanding the ruins, as soon as twi-
light falls, it is said she still deScends the
steps, runs from story to story, glides
through the corridors aad the rooms, and
passes like phantom through the gaping
windows which opened into the desert void.
All return. Isabeau, Gudule, Tronne,
Austreberthe, all these ''happy dead, y loved
| by the stern messenger VINO spared them
from the viscissitudes of life by taking them
suddenly when in early youth they thought
only of happiness. On certain nights this
white-robed band fill the house as If with
| flight of doves To their number had lately
been added the mother of the son of
monseigneur, who was found lifeless on the
floor by the cradle of her infant, where, al
though ill, she dragged herself to die, in the
fullness of her delight at embracing him.
These had haunted the imagination of
Angelique; she spoke of them as if they
were facts of recent occurrence, which
might have happened the day before. She
had read the names OF Laurette and of
Balbine an old memorial tablets let into the
walls of the chapel. Then why should not
she also die young and very happy, as they
had beeng The armories wonld glisten as
now, the saint would come down from his
pac i'll the stained glass window, and she
would be carried away to heaven on the
sweet breath of a kiss. Why not!
The Golden Legend had taught her this:
Was not it true that the miracle is really
the common law. and follows the natural
course of events. 1t exists, is active, works
with an extreme facility on every
out, overhows even use,essly, as if
for the pleasure OF conJradicting
the self-evldent rules of nature Its
power seems to be ON the same plane as that
of the Creator. Abogav, king of iee,e,
writes to Jesus, who replies to him. Ignatus
receives letters from the Blessed Virgin. In
all places the Mother and the Son appear.
disguise themselves and talk with an air of
smiling good nature. When Stephen meets
them they are very familiar with him. All
the Virgins are wed 10 Jesus, and the
martyrs mount to heaven, where they are
TO be united to Mary. Anu as for the
angels and saints, they are the ordinary
companions of men. They come they 20,
they pass through walls, they appear in
dreams, they SIP ak from the height OF
clouds, they assist at births and deaths.
they support those who are tortured, they
deliver those who are in prise and they
go on dangerous missions Following in
their footsteps in an lnexhaustible efilor-
eScence of prodlgies. Sylvester binds Tie
mouth of dragon with a thread. The
earth rises to make seat for Hilary, whose
companions wished to humiliate him A
precious stone falls into the chalice of Saint
Louge. A tree brushes the enemies of
Saint Martin; a dog let's loose hare, and
great fire ceases TO burn at his command
Mary, the Egyptian, walks upon the sea
honey-bees fly from the mouth of Ambrose
at his birth. Continue ly SAINTS cure dis
eases of the eye, withered limbs, paralysis,
leprosy and especially the plague. There is
no disease that resists the sign of the cross
In crowd, the suffering and the feeble are
placed together, that they may be cured in
a mass, as if by thunlerbolt. Death itself |
is conquered, and resurrections are SO fire.. |
quent, that they become quito an everyday |
affair. Aud when the saints themselves are |
dead the wonders do not cease, but are re- |
doubled, and are like perennial flowers |
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