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共 31 段- While this was passing, the party which was bearing the woun
- The lord chamberlain listened carefully to the story of the
- The patriarch began, as was natural from his exalted office
- "This mighty fane before us," said Bardas to his friend, "is
- "Father, it is done. And neither man nor woman in the court
- Romanus now dismissed his prime-minister with real expressio
- "Ah, but I have not nearly done," said Theodosius, "for ther
- The scene now shifts to that magnificent island of southern
- Nicephorus and his staff anxiously watched the slow advance
- And then Nicephorus, carried beyond himself into something l
- "The lord warden," she said, in a voice broken with emotion,
- "No envoy from the Basileus of Rome could be more welcome to
- "Most true, my Lord Bourtzes," replied the general, with a v
- Her meditations were broken by loud and angry altercations a
- Shaken to his soul by a storm of forebodings, amazement, hop
- Bringas was not the man to yield without a stout fight. As
- While this was going on in the church, Theophano was holding
- "In the corruption of officials, in malversation of the fina
- While their Majesties were engaged in their devotions, the s
- "What Allah decrees it is not for us to gainsay," said the e
- "It is even more wonderful than that of the first. For twen
- The emperor judged it unsafe to start on his far eastern cam
- The promise of hearing prophecy caused Theophano to order th
- Far different were the scenes which, during this time, were
- "Do you see that fierce, bull-headed lord on the black charg
- Late in the afternoon the silentiary Symmachos arrived, with
- "Prayer and praise, I warrant," the Basileus broke out, as i
- "No longer," she replied, hotly, and added, with an air of
- "I swear before the Mother of God that what they say of me i
- A storm more fierce than any in that winter of storms was ra
- "Holy and venerable patriarch," said John, in a voice of thu