Even in the midst thereof, and in the very disk of the sun, beams the face of Jesus Christ.
Day at last appears ... in the midst thereof and in the very disk of the sun, beams the face of Jesus Christ.
Anthony makes the sign of the cross, and resumes his devotions.)
FINIS
[1] Winkelmann claims to have been the first to discover that the Egyptian sphinxes were bisexual—females before—males otherwise. (See Book II, chap. I, § 25.) Flaubert speaks of the Sphinx in the masculine like Philemon. (See also Signor Carlo Fea's note upon the paragraph in Winkelmann, old French edition. An II, R. F.)—Trans.
[2] Fleurs de fer, "flowers of iron." In mineralogy flos ferri, a form of Aragonite.—Trans.