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Among his company he had already mustered up five celebrated blues; four ladies of quality, of better reputation than Dr Feasible's; seven or eight baronets and knights; a bishop of Fernando Po; three or four general officers; and a dozen French and German visitors to the country, who had not only titles, but wore orders at their button-holes.
The effect from a distance is dazzling, the reds, blues, and gold mingle together and produce a multicoloured mass reaching to the height of the nave; on closer examination, the workmanship is seen to be both coarse and naïve, primitive as compared to the more finished retablos of Burgos, Astorga, etc.
If all is lost, I will ask you to put a pistol to my head. I would a thousand times rather die so than fall into the hands of the Blues, and either be slaughtered mercilessly, or thrown into one of their prisons to linger, until the guillotine released me." "I agree with you in that, Patsey. Well, we will regard the matter as settled.
"Poissarde! of one of the best born, best bred women in England!" cried Lady Cecilia; "bien coiffee, I allow." "Lady Cecilia is si coiffee de sa belle amie, that I see I must not say a word against her, till the fashion changes. But, hark! I hear a voice I never wish to hear." "Yet nobody is better worth hearing " "Oh! yes, the queen of the Blues the Blue Devils!"
"No, no, he replied, "I'm Dutch." "Surely not," I said, "the people of Holland are Dutch." "No, no," he said again, "they are Hollanders, I'm Dutch." On discharge from hospital I was sent to King's House in Durban for convalescence and was duly fitted out with hospital blues and a red tie.
Never did food taste better! We sit gnawing the chicken bones and blessing the American! Meantime the sun falls and a splendour you never yet have imagined fills the air. Streaks of flaming colour shoot athwart the sky, bursting up behind the tufted palms; the eastern sky catches the reflection and shows softest blues and pinkest pinks in contrast.
Sweeping chimneys and cleaning flues, That is the work I love; Brushing away the blacks and the blues, And letting in light from above! I twirl my broom in your tired brain When you're tight in sleep up-curled, Then scatter the stuff in a soot-like rain Over the edge of the world. The voice grew fainter and fainter in the distance
The late Lord Wriothesley Russell, who was for many years a Canon of Windsor, used to conduct a mission service for the Household troops quartered there; and one of his converts, a stalwart trooper of the Blues, expressing his gratitude for these voluntary ministrations, and contrasting them with the officer-like and disciplinary methods of the army chaplains, genially exclaimed, "But I always say there's not a bit of the gentleman about you, my lord."
The tenderest greens, the softest blues, the freshest scents, the clearest air, the most delightful sunshine were everywhere.
I walked with Lord Hill. There were ten or twelve barons, a number of judges, six or eight bishops, and upon the whole a fair representation of the peerage and the Privy Council. There was a double line of Life Guardsmen within the castle, without Foot Guards, and the Blues in the chapel. We did not see the body as we passed. A screen of black concealed the room in which it lay in state.
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