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... This was in March, 1878. I looked about me for the right sort of person to accom- pany me in the capacity of agent, and finally hired a Mr. Harris fo... ... Mr. Harris was in sympathy with me in this. He was as much of an enthusiast in art as I was, and not less anxious to learn to paint. I desired to lea... ...ntly he saw a deer, followed by her young, approach the water. He watched her, judging that she would seek a ford, and he was right. She waded over, a... ...ed were named for it. This is good evidence that Frankfort was the first place it occurred at. Frankfort has another distinction—it is the birthplace ... ...Presently another open carriage brought the Grand Duke of Baden, a stately man in uniform, who wore the hand- some brass-mounted, steel-spiked helmet ... ...egan to rain blows down upon each other with such light- ning rapidity that I could not quite tell whether I saw the swords or only flashes they made ... ...understand why the opposing sword was not beaten down under the assault. Presently, in the midst of the sword-flashes, I saw a handful of hair skip in... ...d into Oppenau, just eleven hours and a half out of Allerheiligen—one hundred and forty-six miles. This is the distance by pedometer; the guide-book a... ...wrong scent, and that is always hopeless; one is sure, then, to go straight on misinterpreting everything, clear through to the end. The young lady wi...

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...T YEAR a Parisian banker, who had very extensive commercial relations with Germany, was entertain- ing at dinner one of those friends whom men of busi... ...end, the head of a rather important house in Nuremburg, was a stout worthy German, a man of taste and erudition, above all a man of pipes, having a fi... ...t of me. He was a man of medium height, rather fat and smiling, having the air and manner of a stock-broker, and apparently endowed with a very ordina... ...in! He possesses a million in real estate. That’s a former purveyor to the imperial armies; a good sort of man, and rather original. He married a seco... ...eft bank of the Rhine a few leagues from Coblentz. At that time the French army, commanded by Augereau, was manoeuvring before the Austrians, who then... ...and adorned with a tricolor plume, even the German peasants had recognized army surgeons, a body of men of science and merit liked, for the most part,... ...lord to open the window looking toward the outer gate, so as to change the air. This window was barricaded by an iron bar, the two ends of which were ... ...et-book:— “You are invited to be present at the funeral procession, burial services, and interment of Monsieur Jean-Frederic Taillefer, of the house o...

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...seen narrowing in; the Ticino and the Sesia waters, nearest, quiver on the air like sleepy lakes; the plain is engulphed up to the high ridges of the ... ... the north to-morrow, think you?” The mountaineer sent a quick gaze up the air, as to descry signs. “Who knows?” Agostino continued, though not playin... ...rlo is his in- timate friend: Yes, Yes:—There’s a regiment of them at your service, and you may shuffle them as you will. This is the help we get from... ...rison whom we desire to put on their guard. By no means. We are not in the Imperial pay. Probably your balloon is to burst in due time, and, wind perm... ...nnot trust him. I do not. But, if we make such a tide in Lombardy that his army must be drawn into it, is such an army to be refused? First, the tide,... ...t will not accept it for its loath- someness. There were Englishmen in the army of Austria. Could one of them be this one whom she had cared for when ... ...n Nepomuk, Freiherr von Scheppenhausen) resembled in appearance one in the Imperial Royal service, a gambling General of Division, for whom Fame had n... ...curately divided from the inhabitants of the land they hold. In Italy, the German, the Czech, the Magyar, the Croft, even in general instances the Ita... ...ir, is this opera girl calling herself Vittoria? I have a lecture for you. German women don’t forgive diversions during courtship; and if you let this...

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...ind force of circumstances the sea was to be all my world and the merchant service my only home for a long succession of years. No wonder, then, that ... ...n idle, strolling custom house guard, belted over his blue capote, had the air of being depressed by exposure to the weather and the monotony of offic... ...V . S. (of noble extraction), a man of about thirty-five, appeared with an air of perplexity on his open and mustached counte- nance. I got up from th... ... Mr. Nicholas B., sub-lieutenant of 1808, lieutenant of 1813 in the French army, and for a short time Officier d’Ordonnance of Marshal Marmont; afterw... ...mont; afterward captain in the 2d Regiment of Mounted Rifles in the Polish army—such as it existed up to 1830 in the reduced kingdom established by th... ...nying it that he was a great man as long as he was content to thrash those Germans and Austrians and all those nations. But no! He must go to Russia l... ...ece of furniture was smashed and there lay exposed in a drawer eighty half imperials. Gold coin was a rare sight in Russia even at that time; it put t... ...g so carefully. Without wishing to treat with levity the just timidites of Imperialists all the world over, I may allow myself the reflection that a w... ...nd that there was no idea of any sort of “career” in my call. Of Russia or Germany there could be no question. The nationality, the antecedents, made ...

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... what is passing under our very eyes. But here, as in so many other cases, Germany, learned, indefatigable, deep-thinking Germany comes to our aid. It... ...ughs, and Revolts of Paris, deafen every French and every English ear, the German can stand peaceful on his scientific watch-tower; and, to the raging... ...endered visible: in Bodies, that took shape and will lose it, melting into air? Their solid Pavement is a Picture of the Sense; they walk on the bosom... ...,—tears streaming down his cheeks, pipe held aloft, foot clutched into the air,—loud, long-continuing, uncontrollable; a laugh not of the face and dia... ... more than a common meaning, but has two meanings: thus, if in the highest Imperial Sceptre and Charlemagne- Mantle, as well as in the poorest Ox-goad... ...twilights,” cries Teufelsdrockh, “when the Sun, like a proud Conqueror and Imperial Taskmaster, turned his back, with his gold-purple emblazonry, and ... ... such I must ever love the good Gretchen, did me one altogether invaluable service: she taught me, less indeed by word than by act and daily reverent ... ...r military chest insol- vent, forage all but exhausted; and that the whole army is about to mutiny, disband, and cut your and each other’s throat,—the... ...t. Have them salted and barrelled; could not you victual therewith, if not Army and Navy, yet richly such infirm Paupers, in workhouses and elsewhere,...

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...s called the “Environs of Paris” did not all possess a regular stage-coach service. Nevertheless, the T ouchards, father and son, had acquired 4 A St... ...f its being given here. The four-wheeled coach was surmounted by a hooded “imperial,” into which Pierrotin managed to poke six pas- 10 A Start in Lif... ... from the wheels of the coaches; but he did so with an anxious, reflective air that was not habitual with him. This conversation, apparently insignifi... ...u what! no more ease and comfort for the Moreaus,” said the valet, with an air of mystery. “He’s a worthy man, Monsieur Moreau,” remarked Pierrotin, t... ...mar- riage placed him (more than one example of which could be seen at the imperial court), Moreau asked the count to give him the management of the P... ...s life. Now the steward and his wife had wounded the feelings of a retired army officer, Monsieur de Reybert, and his wife, who were living near Presl... ...thought at one time of giving the management of the estate to some retired army officer, about whom he could obtain exact information from the ministe... ...very different. Englishmen pique them- selves on never opening their lips; Germans are melancholy in a vehicle; Italians too wary to talk; Spaniards h... ... no matter where, was his sole ambition. Though Frederic Marest was cousin-german to Georges Marest, the latter not having told his surname in Pierrot...

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... the right to speak of a cavalry officer: his father died of wounds in the service, and Matey naturally intended to join the Dragoons; if he could get... ...tting friends to rub their cheeks with snow, all of them happy as larks in air, a big tea steaming for them at the school. Those girls had a leap and ... ...all it corset—over the chest, try- ing to lift and stretch for draughts of air. But Browny’s feel- ing naturally was, that all this advantage for the ... ...ys were sorry that little Emile was off to finish his foreign education in Germany. His English was pretty good, thanks to Matey. He went away, promis... ...arked. He dared to claim the countenance of the Commander-in- chief of the Army of India for an act disapproved by the India House. Other letters migh... ...protect the girl. “Your name is Weyburn; your father was an officer in the army, killed on the battle-field, Arthur Abner tells me,” was her somewhat ... ... and he’s cast in penalties. Yet we know from history, in England, France, Germany, that the time of non- conformity brought out the manhood of the na... ...hough, in fact, criticism is the end of wor- ship; the Brutus blow at that Imperial but mortal bosom. The person criticized was manifest. Who was the ... ...ig hole for his cavalry, my brother says; and weeding his infantry for the Imperial Guard he postponed the moment to use.’ ‘ At Moskowa?’ ‘W aterloo. ...

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...d force of cir- cumstances the sea was to be all my world and the merchant service my only home for a long succes- sion of years. No wonder then that ... ...n idle, strolling custom-house guard, belted over his blue capote, had the air of being depressed by exposure to the weather and the monotony of of- f... ...V.S. (of noble extraction), a man of about thirty-five, ap- peared with an air of perplexity on his open and moustachioed countenance. I got up from t... ...r. Nicholas B., sub-lieutenant of 1808, lieu- tenant of 1813 in the French Army, and for a short time Officier d’Ordonnance of Marshal Marmont; afterw... ...nt; afterwards Captain in the 2nd Regiment of Mounted Rifles in the Polish Army—such as it existed up to 1830 in the reduced kingdom established by th... ...nying it that he was a great man as long as he was content to thrash those Germans and Austrians and all those nations. But no! He must go to Russia l... ...ece of furniture was smashed and there lay exposed in a drawer eighty half-imperials. Gold coin was a rare sight in Russia even at that time; it put t... ... so carefully. Without wishing to treat with levity the just timidities of Imperialists all the world over, I may allow myself the reflection that a w... ...nd that there was no idea of any sort of “career” in my call. Of Russia or Germany there could be no question. The nationality, the antecedents, made ...

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...ntleman and his bride. George did the honours of the place with a princely air to Jos and Dobbin; and Amelia, for the first time, and with exceeding s... ..., with his hat on one side, his elbows squared, and his swaggering martial air, made for Bedford Row, and stalked into the attorney’s offices as if he... ... fellows here,” the Major’s lady continued. “There’s not a regiment in the service where you’ll find a more united society nor a more agreeable mess-r... ...was trot- ting downstairs on his commission. “Obedience is the soul of the army. We will go to our duty while Mrs. O’Dowd will stay and enlighten you,... ...the true Parisian pronunciation, and a retired Mejor-General of the French service to put us through the exercise.” Of this incongruous family our ast... ...on board confidentially that he was going to join the Duke of Wellington’s army, folks mistook him for a great personage, a commissary-general, or a g... ...er hand, the postilion who drove us was a Viscount, a son of some bankrupt Imperial General, who accepted a pennyworth of beer on the road. The moral ... ..., or were preparing for a final onset. It came at last: the columns of the Imperial Guard 76 V anity Fair – V olume Two marched up the hill of Saint ... ...y handle them. To use a cue at billiards well is like using a pencil, or a German flute, or a small-sword—you cannot master any one of these implement...

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...IN SAMUEL LEWIS, OF THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY’S SERVICE. My Dear Lewis, After a voyage, during which the captain of the shi... ...calm sea. The breeze was a warm and soft one; quite different to the rigid air we had left behind us, two days since, off the Isle of Wight. The bell ... ...e features of the landscape being lighted up with a wonderful clearness of air, which rarely adorns a view in our country. The sun had not yet set, bu... ...nd foreign ministers and ambassadors may enjoy a dignified sine- cure; the army will rise to the rank of peaceful constables, not having any more use ... ...e heroism saved his island from the efforts of Mustapha and Dragut, and an army quite as fierce and numerous as that which was baffled before Gibralta... ...; a host of jingling barouches, more miserable than any to be seen even in Germany, were collected at the landing-place; and the Greek drivers (how qu... ...alliance as this?) perpetually pulling and tugging at me, away from honest Germany, where there is beer and aes- thetic conversation, and operas at a ... ... article of dress, with the red fez. That of Mahmoud is decorated with the imperial aigrette. In this dismal but splendid museum, I remarked two littl... ...s displayed. The place is under the patronage of the Emperor Nicholas; an Imperial Prince has stayed in these rooms; the Russian consul performs a gr...

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...eemingly impenetrable thickets, the continual dodging of the road which made haste to plunge again into the covert, we had a fine sense of woods, and ... ...erican, acknowledging some kind allegiance to three lands. Mr. Wallace’s Scoto-Circassian will not fail to come before the reader. I have myself met a... ...Arabia Petraea. Chateau Neuf is dead, and I have never tasted it; Hermitage – a hermitage indeed from all life’s sorrows – lies expiring by the river.... ...nd souls under canvas; there one thousand or fifteen hundred ensconced, as if for ever, in a town of comfortable houses. But the luck had failed, the ... ...m sure it will be his name among the angels. Kelmar was the store-keeper, a Russian Jew, good- natured, in a very thriving way of business, and, on eq... ...nd all its accompaniments seemed made for us on purpose. He took me to his back door, whence, as from every point of Calistoga, Mount Saint Helena cou... ... by the extraordinary powers of his mind no less than by the vigour of his body, that he broke his strong prison with such imper- fect implements, tur...

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...vet Breughel. If these details do not remind you of all the castles in the air you have desired to possess in France you are not worthy to receive the... ...-peas are blooming. From a distance or- ange-trees and tuberoses scent the air. After the poetic exha- lations of the woods (a gradual preparation) ca... ...esolution, at Montcornet’s command, to turn and resist the entire Austrian army, which carried off on the mor- row over thirty wagon-loads of cuirasse... ...hich carried off on the mor- row over thirty wagon-loads of cuirasses. The Germans in- vented a name for their enemies on this occasion which means “m... ...ld hear of some new method of agriculture: “There sleep the cavalry of the imperial guard,” said the peasant who served us as a guide; “those are thei... ...en Elizabeth at the gates of Kenilworth. Choleric though kind, and full of imperial hauteur, he has the caustic tongue of a soldier, and is quick at r... ...be three times: “Die or retake the village; it is a question of saving the army; the bridges are destroyed.” The Author. Now, I must tell you that the... ...cured him impunity. As soon as his children were large enough he made them serviceable to his comfort, caring no more for their morality than for that... ...political blunder to which we owe such mistakes as sending French money to Germany to buy horses which our own land had ceased to breed; a blun- der w...

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...eral edu- cation and average efficiency, the power now available for human service, the merely physical increment, and compare it with anything that h... ...ly remote from his statecraft. They were the vehicle of children, but only Imperial Rome and the new world of to-day have ever had an inkling of the s... ...garden hedge and box from the garden borders. By these territories went my Imperial Road carrying produce to and fro, bridging gaps in the oilcloth, t... ...ot (for- merly Mrs. Noah) who, if I remember rightly , converted them into Army sausage by means of a portion of the inside of an old alarum clock. My... ... he extended his hand and arm and twiddled his fingers for a second in the air. “Like that,” he said. I thought the explanation sufficient, but he pau... ...slogged. Great wipes he made, and at each stroke he said, “Take that!” The air was thick with flying fragments of abortive salad. It was a fantastic m... ...eyes, now the hoardings flamed with election plac- ards, now the Salvation Army and now the unemployed came trailing in procession through the winter-... ...re at the omissions from our cur- riculum, and particularly at our want of German. More- 58 The New Machiavelli over, four classes still worked toge... ...on’t wish to innovate unduly,” he used to say. But we ought to get in some German, you know,—for those who like it. The army men will be wanting it so...

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...mer in the middle of the next room, a yard-stick in his hand measuring the air, and so ill wrapped up in his green cotton dressing-gown with chocolate... ... turned about to say to his wife, “Well, what do you want, Constance?” his air and man- ner, like those of a man absorbed in calculations, were so pro... ...offering him at the same time that engraving which I have at last found in Germany, after two years’ search. He is now engaged in analyzing hair: Chif... ...into discredit. * * * The first days of the year 1814, so fatal to imperial France, were marked at the Birotteaus by two events, not especiall... ...fe whose chances might bring him to the scaffold, to fortune, the bar, the army, commerce, or domestic life. Obliged to live like a Figaro, he was fir... ...hat township. Without father, mother, or other guardian than the procureur imperial, alone in the world and owing no duty to any man, he found society... ...love Roguin for thirty thousand francs a year instead of fifty thousand,—a service which infatuated old men seldom forget. One evening, after a supper... ...the return of the Bourbons and anxious to stand well at court, had gone to Germany and bought up all the debts contracted by the princes during the em... ...iaire. These claims—” “Are equal to those of our brave soldiers of the old army. The ribbon is red, for it is dyed with their blood.” At these words, ...

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... Bargeton. “I can see plainly that you love Lucien,” he continued, with an air of tender resignation. “You must love indeed if you can act thus reckle... ... eyes; graceful, spruce, fashionably dressed, with a certain uniformity of air, a sameness due to a fineness of contour, and a certain dignity of carr... ...favor would be enormous, only to be granted to vast wealth, or conspicuous services, or very powerful influ- ence. The young man looks like a shopman ... ...sed to the pantheism of one who is still living to bear an honored name in Germany. Meyraux was the friend of that “Louis” of whom death was so soon t... ...goons of the Guard, that set out as a private in a cavalry regiment in the army of the Sambre-et-Meuse, and was fencing-master for five years to the F... ...mbre-et-Meuse, and was fencing-master for five years to the First Hussars, army of Italy! One, two, and the man that had any complaints to make would ... ...- riage, T ullia.” “Yes, but the Duke is waiting below in it, and he has a German Minister with him.” “Ask the Duke and the Minister to come up,” said... ...ion by name. Du Potelet has forgotten that he was once in waiting upon Her Imperial Highness; but he still sings the songs composed for the benefactre... ... asked Lucien. “He came here to ask for an explanation,” said Vernou. “The Imperial buck found old Giroudeau at home; and old Giroudeau told him, with...

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...mber, disregarding the baldness of their velvet covers which had done good service for twenty-four years. “We can seat seventy persons,” she said to h... ...d them. Colonel Giguet was one of the most respected officers in the Grand Army, the foundation of his character being absolute integrity joined to ex... ...r-general of the Aube, who also had had a brother, the chief-justice of an imperial court. While a mere barrister at Arcis this young man had lent his... ...he inheritance of his grandfather the banker of Hamburg. But when that old German died in 1826, he left his grandson Giguet a paltry two thousand fran... ...f the meeting at Madame Marion’s:— “It was well enough to give yourself an air of indepen- dence; but you mustn’t go to that Giguet meeting unless Ach... ...they were yes- terday,—that is, I presume so,—he! he! he!” adding, with an air of perfect beatitude, “perhaps a little agitated by the cer- emony now ... ...he Aube. The late Monsieur Marion would not have been chief-justice of the Imperial court without the protection of the count, to whom I myself have e... ... facts. When the war ravaged Champagne, he kept himself between the French army and Paris. After each lost battle he went among the workmen who had bu... ...rica. I’ll stay there long enough to make my promotion to the same post in Germany legitimate. If I am worth anything, they will soon take me out of i...

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...ck blew wild. A girl on a hilltop; credulous, plastic, young; drinking the air as she longed to drink life. The eternal aching comedy of expectant you... ...oss the river Carol and Kennicott looked back at St. Paul on its hills; an imperial sweep from the dome of the cathedral to the dome of the state capi... ...with plaster of river mud, and ropes of twisted grass for laths. It has an air of centuries. In its solid rooms Carol and Kennicott found prints from ... ...ver his order-blanks. But the older people, Yankees as well as Norwegians, Germans, Finns, Canucks, had settled into submission to poverty. They were ... ... hundred and fifty inhabitants, at which the train was stopping. A bearded German and his pucker-mouthed wife tugged their enormous imitation-leather ... ...daisies on a saffron ground. Newness and an obvious notion of neatness and service. Haydock & Simons. Haydock. She had met a Haydock at the station; H... ...-shelf against a wall rubbed black and scattered with official notices and army recruiting-posters. The damp, yellow-brick schoolbuilding in its cinde... ...oth was actually begun! On what specific reform should she first loose her army? Dur- ing the gossip after the meeting Mrs. George Edwin Mott remarked... ...s sin and the overclouding of august favor. The two friends played with an imperial chariot which Miles had made out of a starch-box and four red spoo...

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...pe. White and black smoke rose up in steady columns, magic within the dark air. Near at hand came the long rows of dwellings, approach- 8 ing curved ... ...coat, of a strong blue colour. And she felt as if she were treading in the air, quite unstable, her heart was con- tracted, as if at any minute she mi... ...er, if she did not touch him. Y et she stood subjected through the wedding service. She had suffered so bitterly when he did not come, that still she ... ...h!’ cried Gudrun. ‘Then we shan’t have names any more—we shall be like the Germans, nothing but Herr Obermeister and Herr Untermeister. I can imagine ... ... in brooding. Each man was gone in his own thoughts. ‘You know how the old German knights used to swear a blutbruderschaft,’ he said to Gerald, with q... ...of savagedom. The days of Homer were his ideal, when a man was chief of an army of heroes, or spent his years in wonderful Odyssey. He hated remorsele... ...faith. But then Gerald must always come away from Birkin, as from a Church service, back to the outside real world of work and life. There it was, it ... ...ula, it was wonderful! He began in French—La vie, c’est une affaire d’ames imperiales— in a most beautiful voice—he was a fine-looking chap—but he had... ... thought of home;—one could travel on skis down there, and come to the old imperial road, below the pass. But why come to any road? He revolted at the...

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...es as being very much that of a red-coat sentinel grenadier, battered with service, 4 Rhoda Fleming and standing firmly enough, though not at ease. S... ...wife, and a widow, Mrs. Lovell by name. They looked at her all through the service, and the lady certainly looked at them in return; nor could they, w... ... and sedate. He talked fondly of one friend that he had, an officer in the army, which was considered pardonably vain. He did not reach to the ideal o... ...ream of the neighbouring mill ran blue among the broad green pastures; the air smelt of cream-bowls and wheaten loaves; the firs on the beacon-ridge, ... ...paniards in black and white, Peruvians—orange, Mexicans—red as the British army. Well, it’s just my whim. If I like red, I go at red. I ain’t a bit of... ...ck flame. Boys adored Mrs. Lovell. These are moths. But more, the birds of air, nay, grave owls (who stand in this metaphor for whiskered experience) ... ... French—mind her accents, though!—and she needn’t attempt any of the nasty German—kshrra-kouzzra- kratz!—which her pretty lips can’t do, and won’t do;... ...erred to a dignified umpire, who, a Frenchman, drew his right hand down an imperial tuft of hair dependent from his chin, and gave a decision in Alger... ...n—it must be a quarter past. Or, a three quarters to the next hour, as the Germans say.” “Odd!” Robert ejaculated. “Foreigners have the queerest ways ...

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...ctacle. Thousands have reflected on a Diarist’s power to cancel our Burial Service. Not alone the cleric’s good work is upset by him; but the sexton’s... ...ommunicative daylight. For when the fictitious creature has performed that service of helping to civilize the world, it becomes the most dangerous of ... ...tober day just before the brown leaves fall.’ Diana hummed a little of the air of Planxty Kelly, the favourite of her childhood, as Lady Dunstane well... ...uld wish to live to her end. It seemed remote, where an invigorating upper air gave new bloom to her cheeks; but she kept one secret from her friend. ... ...al men, even the most devoted among them, will think for themselves; their army, which is the rational, calls them to its banners, in opposition to th... ...steemed by Lord and Lady Esquart. These, with Diana, Redworth, Dacier, the German Eastern traveller Schweizerbarth, and the French Consul and Egyptolo... ...ty’s coquettry between the two foreign rivals, moved a deeper feeling. The German had a guitar, the Frenchman a voice; Diana joined them in harmony. T... ...cally and morally alike. Lord Larrian owns to there being few heroes in an army. We must fawn in society. What is the meaning of that dread of one exa... ...ol sinking, Caesar stabbed, Cato on the sword-point. He is Roman, Spartan, Imperial; English, if you like, the pick, of the land. It is an honour to c...