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...hours, the royal train puffed and grunted its way through native hamlets, through bushland and sterile desert. At all peopled spots, natives, in riotous colors either knelt beside the railway and murmured bamka da suwa (a blessing on your coming) or, with shining, oily faces, voiced raucous enthusiasm...
...inscrutable, saturnine heroism of her husband began to move her, if not to love, at least to admiration. He took cholera. She knelt beside his contorted body, begging forgiveness. His lips opened. She bent to hear his last words. "The dog it was that died," he said in a blackening whisper...
...that they pitied the future Governor, that the Pitts- burgh society had their sympathy. They stood before the canvases, spread their legs into sententious V's, curled their lips. Others gazed, rapt, at the same canvases, like people brought before the face of holiness. A few, however, neither knelt nor mocked. "What," asked these, "are the virtues that have made Zuloaga famous ? Wliat are the faults that have made him popular?" Coldly, they considered...
...which the Fathed donned his white and gold mitre and changed from the closed sedan to the famed sedia gestoria, the procession crossed the portico to where the papal throne had been set before the Holy Door of St. Peter's. There the Pope descended and, while all knelt, approached the throne, accompanied by two attendants holding flabelli-great ostrich-feather fans-on either side of his head. The Pope prayed, arose and proceeded up the steps leading to the Holy Door. Someone handed him his studded gold hammer (TIME, Dec. 22). He raised his hand to smite...
With cross and candle, the Pope next knelt on the holy threshold, singing the Te Deum. When he arose, he crossed the threshold first of any. He was followed by Cardinals Bisleti and Lega, by the other Cardinals and, in the course of the evening, by some 60 jubilant thousands, all of whom kissed the side columns as they passed through...