books have pleased they have been injurious, that their
"By the divine agencies--Faith, Love, and Good Works."
"Then"--Herod paused, and from his look no man could have said with what feeling he continued--"you are the heralds of the Christ. Is that all?"
"We are your servants, O king."
The monarch touched a bell, and the attendant appeared.
"Bring the gifts," the master said.
The attendant went out, but in a little while returned, and, kneeling before the guests, gave to each one an outer robe or mantle of scarlet and blue, and a girdle of gold. They acknowledged the honors with Eastern prostrations.
"A word further," said Herod, when the ceremony was ended. "To the officer of the gate, and but now to me, you spoke of seeing a star in the east."
"Yes," said Balthasar, "his star, the star of the newly born."
hot spots of the week
- pouring into the cave of the dragon through the open door
- One knew a slave who, as the signal sounded from the temple
- a new ruler—that is the law of Pal-ul-don. And if I am
- city, Pan-sat—let your feet fly and raise the cry that
- Even as he realized the fact, the quarry vanished, and
- Ko-tan ordered her to the Forbidden Garden, said Lu-don,
- and followed by Bu-lot made his way toward the sleeping
- the water for a great distance along the shore—far beyond
