Storia do Mogor 338.6.7

338.6.7

But Father de Saa was not repelled, nor was there any reason for being so, for was it not love, moderate, well-arranged, better aimed, and still better concocted ? It seemed to the good Father Paulo de Saa that the Theatine who was speaking to him on this occasion was not a man, but an angel sent from on high (de cima). All the same, in making this assumption he did not altogether deceive himself; for, if I do not make a mistake, one's own land and the land adjoining are called in Portugal terras de cima. But what he knew for a certainty was that he came from below to his cost (costa) — I mean for his consolation. Thus, from being half dead, those words quite restored him to life. Strange remedy ! Noteworthy influence ! Wonderful force ! Who could have anticipated it ? Such a happy thought ! Such a great success on the part of the physician ! Such great good luck to the patient ! Such a wonderful recovery (God being the greater part in it) in the case of one who was almost at the point of death. Once more the storm was appeased, almost at the point when the roaring thunder and the gleaming lightning were ready to burst over him so fiercely that out of mere fright he would be consumed.