[Remember the Alamo by Amelia E. Barr]@TWC D-Link bookRemember the Alamo CHAPTER XVII 16/33
Is there sin in heaven? Can we be tempted even there ?" The inquiry went in different ways to each heart, but no one answered it.
There were even a few moments of constrained, conscious silence, which Luis happily ended, by chanting softly a verse from the hymn of the Three Angels: "'WHO LIKE THE LORD ?' thunders Michael the Chief. Raphael, 'THE CURE OF GOD,' bringeth relief, And, as at Nazareth, prophet of peace, Gabriel, 'THE LIGHT OF GOD,' bringeth release." The noble syllables floated outward and upward, and Antonia and Lopez softly intoned the last line together, letting them fall slowly and softly into the sensitive atmosphere. "And as for trouble coming from the devil," said Lopez, "I think, Senora, that Fray Ignatius is wrong.
Trouble is not the worst thing that can come to a man or woman.
On the contrary, our Lady of Prosperity is said to do, them far greater harm.
Let me repeat to you what the ever wise Don Francisco de Quevedo Villegas says about her: "'Where is the virtue prosperity has not staggered? Where the folly she has not augmented? She takes no counsel, she fears no punishment.
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