The pathway of life ..to which is added a biography of DrTalmage . ^ put upat auction massive silver tables and vases of solid gold. A city captured b^^ him,the inhabitants were brought out and put into three classes: the first class, thosewho could bear arms, who must immediately enlist under Attila or be butchered;the second class, the beautiful women, who*were made captives to the Huns; thethird class, the aged men and women, who were robbed of everj^thing and let goback to the city to pay heavy tax. (215) 2l6 THE PATHWAY OF IvIFK. ATTILAS DEATH. It was a common saying that the grass never
The pathway of life ..to which is added a biography of DrTalmage . ^ put upat auction massive silver tables and vases of solid gold. A city captured b^^ him,the inhabitants were brought out and put into three classes: the first class, thosewho could bear arms, who must immediately enlist under Attila or be butchered;the second class, the beautiful women, who*were made captives to the Huns; thethird class, the aged men and women, who were robbed of everj^thing and let goback to the city to pay heavy tax. (215) 2l6 THE PATHWAY OF IvIFK. ATTILAS DEATH. It was a common saying that the grass never grew again where the hoof ofAttilas horse had trod. His armies reddened the waters of the Seine and theMoselle and the Rhine with carnage, and fought on the Catalonian Plains thefiercest battle since the world stood—300,000 dead left on the field ! On and on,until all those who could not oppose him with arms lay prostrate on their faces inprayer, and, a cloud of dust seen in the distance, a bishop cried: It is the aid. ATTIIvA, KING OF THE! HUNS. of God ! and all the people took up the cry: It is the aid of God ! As thecloud of dust was blown aside the banners of re-enforcing armies marched in tohelp against Attila, the Scourge of God. The most unimportant occurrences heused as a supernatural resource, and, after three months of failure to capture theCity of Aquileia, and his army had given up the siege, the flight of a stork andher young from the tower of the city was taken by him as a sign that he was tocapture the city, and his army, inspired by the same occurrence, resumed the siege,and took the walls at a point from which the stork had emerged. So brilliant was THE PATHWAY OF IJFE. 217 the conqueror in attire that his enemies could not look at him, but shaded theireyes or turned their heads. Slain on the evening of his marriage by his bride, Ildico, who was hired forthe assassination, his followers bewailed him not with tears, but with blood,cutting themselves with knive
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