65.The Reward of Faith
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THEREAFTER the King and Father of the Ænseis departed, well pleased with the lesson taught that whippersnapper. And Donander also smiled, and he looked contentedly about his pleasant quarters in the everlasting vales of Ydalir.
“Still, not for a great deal,” Donander reflected, “would I be treading in that old sorcerer’s sandals; and it is a fair shame that I should have such a person for a father-in-law.”
For, as a loyal son of the Church, Donander did not doubt that the wonders which Sidvrar had just shown to him could only be an illusion planned with some evil spirit’s aid to tempt Donander away from respectability and the true faith. In consequence Donander Veratyr, that had been the Creator and Destroyer of all things except the human heart which survived in him, went now into the chapel of Reginlief. There he decorously said the prayers to which Donander was accustomed, and he prayed for the second coming of Manuel and for the welfare of Donander’s soul upon the holy Morrow of Judgment.
BOOK TENAT MANUEL’S TOMB“What hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre?”—Isaiah, xxii, 16.
BOOK TENAT MANUEL’S TOMB“What hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre?”—Isaiah, xxii, 16.
BOOK TEN
AT MANUEL’S TOMB
“What hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre?”
—Isaiah, xxii, 16.
—Salut, ami, dit Jurgen, si vous êtes une créature de Dieu.
—Votre protase est du bien mauvais grec, observa le Centaure, car en Hellade nous nous abstenions de semblables réserves. D’ailleurs mon origine vous intéresse certes moins que ma destination.
—La Haulte Histoire de Jurgen.