oulins). Some
half a league from this city he encountered Maria, whose pathetic story
had been told him by Mr. Shandy. She had lost her goat when Sterne saw
her, but had instead a little dog named Silvio, led by a string. She was
sitting under a poplar, playing on a pipe her vespers to the Virgin.
Poor Maria had been crossed in love, or, to speak more strictly, the
cur['e] of Moulines had forbidden her banns, and the maiden lost her
reason. Her story is exquisitely told, and Sterne says, "Could the
traces be ever worn out of her brain, and those of Eliza out of mine,
she should not only eat of my bread and drink of my cup, but Maria
should lie in my bosom, and be unto me as a daughter."

=Sentinel and St. Paul's Clock= (_The_). The sentinel condemned to death
by court-martial for falling asleep on his watch, but pardoned because
he affirmed that he heard St. Paul's clock strike thirteen instead of
twelve, was John Hatfield, who died at the age of 102, June, 1770.

=Sentry= (_Captain_), one of the members of the club under whose auspices
the _Spectator_ was professedly issued.

=September Massacre= (_The_), the slaughter of loyalists confined in the
Abbaye. This massacre took place in Paris between September 2 and 5,
1792, on receipt of the news of the capture of Verdun. The number of
victims was not less than 1200, and some place it as high as 4000.

=September the Third= was Cromwell's day. On September 3, 1650, he won the
battle of Dunbar. On September 3, 1651, he won the battle of Worcester.
On September 3, 1658, he died.

=Seraphic Doctor= (_The_), St. Bonaventura, placed by Dant[^e] among the
saints of his _Paradiso_ (1221-1274).

=Seraphic Saint= (_The_), St. Francis d'Assisi (1182-1226).

Of all the saints, St. Francis was the most blameless and
gentle.--Dean Milman.

=Seraphina Arthuret= (_Miss_), a papist. Her sister is Miss Angelica
Arthuret.--Sir W. Scott, _Redgauntlet_ (time, George III.).

=Sera'pis=, an Egyptian deity symbolizing the Nile, and fertility in
general.

=Seraskier'= (3 _syl._), a name given by the Turks to a general of
division, generally a pacha with two or three tails. (Persian, _seri
asker_, "head of the army.")

... three thousand Moslems perished here,
And sixteen bayonets pierced the seraskier.

Byron, _Don Juan_, viii. 81 (1824).

=Serb=, a Servian or native of Servia.

=Sereme'nes= (4 _syl._), brother-in-law of King Sardanap[