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... little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in the Carolina hills....

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....” But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illino... ...n to a certi- fied Studio Party, with beer, cigarettes. bobbed hair, and a Russian Jewess who sang the Internationale. It cannot be reported that Caro... ... the principal query was, “Can you tell me of a good, light, exciting love story to read? My husband’s going away for a week.” 14 Main Street She was... ...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... ...kindly gardens. The expanse was relieved by clumps of oaks with patches of short wild grass; and every mile or two was a chain of cobalt slews, with t... ...rofessional training. She studied singing and oratory and dramatic art and shorthand for a year, in Milwaukee.” Miss Stowbody was reciting. As encore ... ..., Lamb, De Quincey, and Mrs. Humphry Ward, who, it seemed, constituted the writers of English Fiction and Es- says. Not till she inspected the rest-ro... ...peace of the Thanatopsis at her third meeting (which covered Scandinavian, Russian, and Polish Literature, with remarks by Mrs. Leonard Warren on the ... ...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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...”The Nigger of the Narcissus,” and “The Mirror of the Sea” (and in the few short sea stories like “Y outh” and “T yphoon”— I have tried with an almost... ...thern hemisphere. But at that moment the mood of visions and words was cut short by the third officer, a cheerful and casual youth, coming in with a b... ...eshment after the memorable performance of an op- era which was the tragic story of Lucia di Lammermoor in a setting of light music. I could recall no... ...ion of the Eastern Archi- pelago which I certainly hoped to see again. The story of “Almayer’s Folly” got put away under the pillow for that day. 13 ... ... I have forgot- ten. Over all this hung the oppressive shadow of the great Russian empire—the shadow lowering with the darkness of a new-born national... ...e Man of St. Helena in view of his deplorable levity in the conduct of the Russian campaign. It was during the memorable retreat from Moscow that Mr. ... ...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... ...ver to meet again in this world. V IN THE CAREER of the most unliterary of writers, in the sense that literary ambition had never entered the world of...

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...your life you will never probably have a chance again to see so much in so short a time. Consider—it is as easy as a journey to Paris or to Baden. ”Mr... ...m is the regular route practised by the travel- ler who has to make only a short stay, and accordingly a couple of carriages were provided for our par... ... the source of so much bodily and mental discomfort to me. ”To make a long story short, I am anxious to apologise for a want of enthusiasm in the clas... ...ing up to the steamer’s side to convey us travellers to shore. There were Russian schooners and Greek brigs lying in this little bay; dumpy little wi... ...he deuce knows why, for what good can the En- glish, or the French, or the Russian party get out of such a bankrupt alliance as this?) perpetually pul... ...moke had darkened the whole city with soot, and when, according to the old writers, there really was bright weather. The fleets of caiques bustling al... ... 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... ...r- ous in esteeming their neighbours. As far as I can get at the authentic story, Saladin is a pearl of refinement compared to the brutal beef-eating ... ...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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...RIST ON FEAR AND ARISTOCRA OCRA OCRA OCRA OCRACY CY CY CY CY 1 1 1 1 1 THE STORY OF William Porphyry Benham is the story of a man who was led into adv... ... and changed with him, it interwove at last completely with his being. His story is its story. It was trace- ably germinating in the schoolboy; it was... ...y “aristocratic” he meant something very differ- ent from the quality of a Russian prince, let us say, or an English peer. He meant an intensity, a cl... ...here were not these practicable things. He 5 H G Wells blundered, he fell short of himself, he had—as you will be told—some astonishing rebuffs, but ... ...s an aggressive bull. It had been put there to pre- vent the boys taking a short cut to the swimming place. It had bellowed tremendously and finally c... ...imes in romantic flashes he was adored by German princesses or eloped with Russian grand-duchesses! But such fancies were hors d’oeuvre. The modern bi... ...ing of aristocratic socialism based on universal service with a civilizing imperialism as a purpose…. But his thoughts had gone wider and deeper than ... ...he was sim- ply abreast of the patriotic and socially constructive British Imperialism of Breeze and Westerton. And there were moods when the two thin... ...ad still to reckon with stupidity. He believed in the statecraft of leader-writers and the sincerity of political programmes. And so regarded, what an...

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...CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II SHOR SHOR SHOR SHOR SHORTL TL TL TL TLANDS ANDS ANDS ANDS ANDS THE BRANGWENS went home to Beldo... ...DS ANDS THE BRANGWENS went home to Beldover, the wedding-party gathered at Shortlands, the Criches’ home. It was a long, low old house, a sort of mano... ..., and it was loaded, and blew the top of his head off. Isn’t it a horrible story?’ ‘How fearful!’ cried Gudrun. ‘But it is long ago?’ ‘Oh yes, they we... ... at any rate.’ ‘What are they?—painters, musicians?’ ‘Painters, musicians, writers—hangers-on, models, ad- vanced young people, anybody who is openly ... ... irritated Birkin. They were all drinking champagne. Maxim, the prim young Russian with the smooth, warm-coloured face and black, oiled hair was the o... ...’m sure I should die—I’m sure I should.’ ‘I hope not,’ whispered the young Russian. ‘I’m sure I should, Maxim,’ she asseverated. 66 ‘Then one won’t c... ...purity, the baby-faced girl, and so enjoys himself all round. It’s the old story—action and reaction, and nothing between.’ ‘I don’t know,’ said Geral... ...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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...The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’” and “The Mirror of the Sea” (and in the few short sea sto- ries like “Youth” and “Typhoon”), I have tried with an almos... ...thern hemisphere. But at that moment the mood of visions and words was cut short by the third officer, a cheerful and ca- sual youth, coming in with a... ...freshment after the memorable performance of an opera which was the tragic story of Lucia di Lammermoor in a setting of light music. I could recall no... ...ion of the East- ern Archipelago which I certainly hoped to see again. The story of “Almayer’s Folly” got put away under the pillow for that day. I do... ...n. Over all this hung the oppressive shadow 31 Joseph Conrad of the great Russian Empire—the shadow lowering with the darkness of a new-born national... ...because, being a separate organisation, it took no part in the wars of the Russian Empire against Persia or Tur- key. Its first campaign, against Russ... ...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... ...et again in this world. Chapter V I N THE CAREER of the most unliterary of writers, in the sense that literary ambition had never en tered the world o...

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...n, out to the open sea. To Frederick Soddy’s INTERPRETATION OF RADIUM This story, which owes long passages to the eleventh chapter of that book, ackno... ...is here foretold. These, however, are small details, and the misses in the story far outnumber the hits. It is the main thesis which is still of inter... ...nourable gathering of leading men, Englishman meeting German and Frenchman Russian, brothers in their offences and in their disaster, upon the hills o... ...distances upon a scale that made the one sole precedent, the corn ships of imperial Rome, a petty inci- dent; and a huge migration of peoples between ... ...e, even agri- culture, every material human concern—’ Then Holsten stopped short. Lawson had leapt to his feet. ‘Damn that dog!’ cried Lawson. ‘Look a... ...t came to be called the ‘Modern State’ movement, and a galaxy of brilliant writers, in America, Europe, and the East, stirred up the world to the thou... ...ormation of posterity, he betrays by a score of casual phrases that he was short, sturdy, inclined to be plump, with a ‘rather blobby’ face, and full,... ...s feet. And he was guiding France, France so long a resent- ful exile from imperialism, back to her old predominance. It seemed to her beyond the dese... ...e. And prominent upon it, and indeed for a time quite dominating it, was a Russian named Karenin, who was singular in being a congenital cripple. His ...

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...incial at Paris is part two of a trilogy. Part one, T wo Poets, begins the story of Lucien, his sister Eve, and his friend David in the provincial to... ...avid, reverts to the setting of Angouleme. Following this trilogy Lucien’s story is continued in yet another book, Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life. A D... ...e portions were cut with so strict an eye to business that they savored of short commons. In such small matters Paris does not show its best side to t... ...man or woman from Angouleme who hap- pens to see you would cut your career short in a strange fash- ion. You would simply be Lucien’s mistress. “If yo... ... as that nowadays. Mortifications and want only fall to the lot of unknown writers; as soon as a man’s name is known, he grows rich, and I will be ric... ...se to his friend’s side as a soldier might keep by a comrade on the frozen Russian plains. During those early days of his acquaintance, he noticed, no... ...little Florville, are you cured already of your fancy? They told me that a Russian prince had carried you off.” “Who carries off women in these days” ... ...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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...on the long distances of twelve to eighteen miles, the coucou came down to shorter trips, and so lived on for several years. At last, however, it succ... ...ng to in- fringe the law as to the number of passengers he might carry. In short, he possessed the affection of the masses; and thus it happened that ... ...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... ...ntrance is through a sort of passage-way beneath the floor of the sec- ond story, in which two or three coaches had room to stand. In 1822 the offices... ...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... ... in school at the time his business took him to the house. Here is the sad story which Pierrotin could never have dis- covered, even by asking for inf... ...ary to talk; Spaniards have no public 46 A Start in Life conveyances; and Russians no roads. There is no amusement except in the lumbering diligences... ... of wine, pates, and candle-grease. To exhibit the stamp of truth that the writers had managed to put upon these records, we may here give the report ...

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...sight the lead- ing characters of a class too long unheeded by the pens of writers who seek novelty as their chief object. Perhaps this forgetfulness ... ...n of old France, 9 Balzac and magnolias with hortensias at their feet. In short, the place is the Invalides of the heroes of horticulture, once the f... ...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... ...e rafts could not pass on account of the shifting channels. Blondet took a short cut through the labyrinths of the park to reach the gate of Conches. ... ...ainst physical pain almost as powerful as that of the 26 Sons of the Soil Russians or the Arabs. “Here’s one of Cooper’s Red-skins,” thought Blondet;... ... his cheeks from blushing like those of a vir- gin who hears an indecorous story of which she knows the meaning. “Ha! ha! so you have hunted the otter... ...ds, said with some pique, the general grew seri- ous, and Blondet told the story of his fishing for the otter. “But if they really have an otter,” sai... ...Tall and strong, he belonged to the class of soldiers accustomed, like the Russians, to obey, passively and absolutely. Nothing hin- dered him in the ...

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...tements of accounts), and after sitting with the mother and daughter for a short time, he very wisely left the little apart- ment in their possession.... ... brother, are secrets, and out of the domain of V anity Fair, in which our story lies. But this may be said, that when the tea was finally announced, ... ...e first clerk to the articled gents, from the articled gents to the ragged writers and white- faced runners, in clothes too tight for them, as he sate... ...to the hotel, who was in a very maudlin state, and had told his tiger-hunt story with great effect, both at the mess-table and at the soiree, to Mrs. ... ...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 ... ...f of her brother, but the former in his trenchant way cut these entreaties short. “I’m an honest man,” he said, “and if I have a feeling I show it, as... ...ney can bring into the field,” Mr. Sedley objected; “the Austrians and the Russians are on their march. He must, he shall be crushed,” Jos said, slapp... ... is coming, but with the Empress and the King of Rome at its head; and the Russians, bah! the Russians will withdraw. No quarter is to be given to the... ..., 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 ...

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...exact image of the past, the symbol of a grand thing destroyed,—a poem, in short. This mansion belongs to the noblest family of the prov- ince; to the... ...s the same as the staircase tower, except that it stops at the first upper story and its summit is a small open dome, beneath which stands a now black... ...e light like a filagree of burnished gold. The baroness always braided the short locks curling on the nape of her neck—which are a sign of race. This ... ... explained by his actual suffering during the emigration. He served in the Russian navy until the day when the Emperor Alexander ordered him to be emp... ...rnalist, and has at this very moment in her house the most venomous of all writers,—so the post- master says, and he’s a juste-milieu man who reads th... ...iterature of the dead languages, and to a very restricted choice of French writers. When, at sixteen, he began what the Abbe Grimont called his philos... ... her uncle’s wife, a young woman given over to the social pleasures of the imperial epoch, Felicite brought herself up as a boy. She kept company with... ... de Rochefide.” In 1842 this con- cluding paragraph was suppressed and the story continued as here follows.—TR. 206 Balzac XVIII THE END OF A HONEY-M... ...d truly, and for himself alone. Aurelie refused to make the happiness of a Russian prince who of- fered her five thousand francs a month. “You are a l...

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... get to be Gruensberg’s secretary—and maybe you would, if you kept up your shorthand and didn’t go sneaking off to concerts and talkfests every evenin... ...ows and shrubs and winding irregular drive ways of Floral Heights. The one-story shops on Smith Street, a glare of plate-glass and new yellow brick; g... ...s for his risks and foresight. He was a stubby man with a cap-like mass of short gray curls and clothes which, no matter how well cut, seemed shaggy. ... ... Building. As always when he passed the Parthenon Shoe Shine Parlor, a one-story hut which beside the granite and red-brick ponderousness of the old C... ...ft. The entrance lobby of the Athletic Club was Gothic, the washroom Roman Imperial, the lounge Spanish Mission, and the reading-room in Chinese Chipp... ...and prosperous grocer, one a Yankee carpenter, one a soda-clerk, and one a Russian Jewish actor The Russian Jew quoted Kautsky, Gene Debs, and Abraham... ...e to ruin this business than all the plots and stuff that these fool story-writers could think up in a month of Sundays.” That afternoon, when the old...

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...g than able; but, at whatever distance I may be from the greatest of comic writers, I shall still be glad to have used these crumbs in showing the mod... ...e served him well. He accustomed himself 13 Balzac to practise, under the imperial regime, a passive obedience which pleased his superiors; and it wa... ...to plunge him into the cares of property, into the culture of a garden, in short, into all the infinitely petty concerns and neighborhood intrigues wh... ...a medley. But the successes of “that handsome Thuillier” were usu- ally of short duration; women did not care to keep his devo- tion any more than he ... ...15 Balzac at a ministry and wore the livery of Louis XVI.; he resembles an imperial diplomatist or a sub-prefect. Now, not only did Mademoiselle Thuil... ...ce she made a proposal to her as follows: ‘A friend of mine,’ she said, ‘a Russian princess for whom one of the first upholsterers has just made splen... ...s had been provided for him: one book was English, another German, a third Russian; there was even one in cabalistic letters that seemed T urkish. Was... ... of his conditional promise to Cerizet, was likely to have heard the whole story of that transaction from Cerizet himself. Evidently all means were th... ...for a carriage he drove home, and half an hour later he had told the whole story to his Egeria. Brigitte had from the first very vehemently declared a...

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...ched and iron rusted, and even these objects did no violence to the prevail- ing air the whole scene wore, of having been exactly the same for years a... ...s sacred vow; he brought all his property with him in gold uninsured. We heard from him when the ship stopped at Queenstown, when he was in the highes... ...ome; I thought of the many people in Australia, who would have an interest in such a shipwreck, and would find their way here when they visit the Old ... .... But, the babies had not appropriated to themselves any bad ex- pression yet, and might have been, for anything that ap- peared to the contrary in th... ... Old Kent Road, and out on Blackheath, and even ascending Shooter’s Hill, before I had had time to look about me in the carriage, like a collected tra... ... sovereign taken out of his pocket that he had there, and a cab engaged. Probably it saved his life.’ The patient rattled out the skeleton of a laugh,... ...the young people enrolled in the Lasso of Love, and other excellent unions, I found the writers generally under a distressing sense that they must sta... ...iet grove of trees, shading the quaintest of Dutch landing-places, where the leaf-speckled shadow of a shipwright just passing away at the further end... ... with which I became well acquainted a year or two ago as Crimean battles, now doing duty as Mexican victories. The change was neatly ef- fected by so...

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... of a pretty woman, attracted the eye to their rosy, well-shaped nails. In short, had it not been for his magisterial and stupendous nose, the chevali... ..., had a grace that was quite irresistible when they came from his lips. In short, the chevalier had the privilege of superlatives. His compliments, of... ...is in store for us, with a carriage, diamonds, an opera-box, and so forth. Russians, Austrians, Britons, have millions on which we have an eye. Beside... ...d on whom his matrimonial views now turned. Du Bousquier’s aversion to the Imperial government had thrown him at first into the royalist circles of Al... ...dopes, the Imperias, the Ninons of the past. One of the most distinguished writers of the Restora- tion has taken her under his protection; perhaps he... ...ecorated with corner blocks cut into diamond facets. It has only one clear story above the ground-floor; but the roof, rising steeply, has several pro... ...es. For some months past she had counted on chance. The disbandment of the Imperial troops and the reorganization of the Royal army caused a change in... ...who had never opened a novel, would have read a hundred chapters of a love story in the eyes of Athanase Granson, where Mademoiselle Cormon saw absolu... ...ncle announced in this sudden missive that Monsieur de T roisville, of the Russian army during the Emigration, grand- son of one of his best friends, ...

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...h pious and monarchical sentiments, a bour- geois as one of themselves. In short, wherever he was he was just what he ought to be; he left Gaudissart ... ...on of noted names which is levied without the knowledge of the unfortunate writers who bear them, and who thus find themselves actual co-operators in ... ... with com- parisons and her real India shawls imported by the suite of the Russian ambassador, and her silver plate and her Russian prince,—who to my ... ...uilt in the Rue d’Artois, where Gaudissart and Jenny climbed to the fourth story. This was the abode of Mademoiselle Jenny Courand, commonly reported ... ...ined two weeks at the latter place to write up his correspondence and make short visits to the various market towns of the department. The night befor... ...t little cricket Lamard to the big Bulot at the cafe, when he told him the story. “I leave to-morrow for Amboise. I shall do up Amboise in two days, a... ... getting down at the Soleil d’Or, an inn kept by a former grenadier of the imperial guard named Mitouflet, married to a rich widow, the illustrious tr...

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...is charmed power, should have been looked upon as a sacred person, and the imperial family considered a “divina domus.” It is an error to regard this ... ...i- vine worship attended the emperor in his lifetime.* To this view of the imperial character and relations must be added one single circumstance, whi... ...mance—though as well authenticated as any other passage in that reign. The story is narrated by Herodian, and the circumstances are these: A slave of ... ...quarter upon the same centre; and the slave became sensible that in a very short space of time he must be surrounded and destroyed. In this desperate ... ...housand leagues, and he overlooks the dagger which is at his own heart. In short, all the heights and the depths which belong to man as aspirers, all ... ...now, he may be held first to have devised it as a mode of history. The six writers, whose sketches are collected under the general title of the August... ...was totally independent of them all. There is another and somewhat sublime story of the same class, which belongs to the most interesting moment of Cæ... ...es, their merit was such in the eyes of the discerning, that all judicious writers shrank from the attempt to alter them. In another instance of his l... ...e’s Persian expedition, so much resembling in rashness and presumption the Russian campaign of Napoleon, though so much below it in the scale of its t...

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...with regard to Shakespeare’s sonnets, Spenser’s minor poems, and the great writers and characters of Elizabeth’s age and those of Cromwell’s time.” Fr... ...y by the poet. In reality his style owed much to the seven- teenth-century writers, such as Milton and Sir Thomas Browne. He took part with Coleridge,... ... philosophy; to ev- ery normal boy the gate of good literature is the good story. It is the narrative skill of De Quincey that has secured for him, in... ...losterheim. Give him Bergmann’s account of the T ar- tar Migration, or the story of the Fighting Nun,—give him the matter,—and a brilliant narrative w... ...s Miniature Series of Great Writers. London: George Bell and Sons. [A good short life.] 6. A. H. JAPP . Thomas De Quincey: His Life and Writ- ings. Lo... ...se many colleges the custom permitted the student to keep what are called “short terms”; that is, the four terms of Michaelmas, Lent, Easter, and Act,... ...eniably went foremost, it was resolved by acclamation that the box was the imperial throne, and, for the scoundrel who drove,—he might sit where he co... ...e could find a perch. The horses, therefore, being harnessed, solemnly his imperial majesty ascended his new English throne under a flourish of trumpe... ...inding one of that inscription, so justly admired by Paul Richter, which a Russian Czarina placed on a guide- post near Moscow: This is the road that ...

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...and contributes toward placing their author in the foremost rank of French writers.” Louis de Rouvroy, who later became the Duc de Saint- 4 Saint-Sim... ...n in Paris, January 16, 1675. He claimed descent from Charlemagne, but the story goes that his fa- ther, as a young page of Louis XIII., gained favour... ... eyes, she would not listen, and drove him from her room. Her husband, who shortly afterwards joined her, met with almost the same treatment. That eve... ...ch, however heavy in appearance, was full of interest to, me, seemed quite short. It finished by the supper of the King. His Majesty appeared quite at... ...ursued by another; and how important it was to draw off detachments of the Imperial forces from Germany into Flanders, and how, by sending an army int... ... to act with the blackest per- fidy, by telling the King quite a different story to that he was charged with. In this way, the project for the siege o... ... their very eyes in open daylight, and in a moment as it were. Such of the Imperial Generals as were out riding ran from all parts to the banks of the... ...velled much, served in war, then been employed in different courts. He was Russian to the backbone, and his extreme avarice much damaged his talents. ... ...is father had attained the crown, although only of ordinary rank among the Russian nobility. These patriarchs were dependent upon those of the Greek r...