Word: guests
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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TERROR and dismayreigned in the halls of the Vatican. Never since the appearance of the comet as an uninvited guest at the siege of Constantinople, had the Papal Council been in such a quandary. Through the long halls, the lofty salons, rushed a perturbed crowd of pallid dignitaries. Canons, bishops, cardinals, filled the passage-ways. Even the monks and friars who were on prayer-duty dropped their beads and hastened to the scene of excitement. A stream of Ecclesiastical big guns who were off duty came pouring up the cellar stairs. In a great chair, at the foot...
That you will honor as a guest...
Horace alone, of the ancients, welcome we here as our guest...
Without any questions from me he began telling story after story, holding me spell-bound, as the Ancient Mariner held the wedding-guest "with his glittering eye." In fact, this eye is all I can distinctly remember about him, for his body seemed ghost-like and unreal enough. It was like the eye of any old man, weak and watery, while he described my Hollis room as he knew it once with its sanded floor and two wooden chairs; or while he pictured the Yard with its five buildings, deserted but for an occasional boy in a long, bag-tailed...