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The book suggests, moreover, a critical position which is, that gallantry and Virginia have so far been regrettably sacrificed to chivalry and Poictesme in the career of Mr. Cabell's imagination. Not only the symmetry expected of that career demands something different; so does its success with the gallantries of Lichfield. In spite of all Mr.
" P. M. B. Young's " " Thomas L. Rosser's " MAJ.-GEN. W. H. F. LEE'S Division. Brig.-Gen. Rufus Barringer's Brigade. " J. R. Chambliss's " Artillery Reserve: BRIG.-GEN. W. N. PENDLETON, Commanding. BRIG.-GEN. E. P. ALEXANDER'S DIVISION.* Cabell's Battalion. Manly's Battery. 1st Co. Richmond Howitzers. Carleton's Battery. Calloway's Battery. Haskell's Battalion. Branch's Battery.
If any limitation, it should only be placed upon the creation of Peers, and a Council of Regency should exist only for that purpose. We separated till the 23rd. August 9. In coming down to Sandgate read James's and Cabell's memoranda on the progress of the British Government in India, and our foreign relations. As I was coming out of Maidstone met the candidates coming in.
He has passed twenty-four hours with mitigated symptoms. Dined with Sir J. Murray. I must next year have an Indian dinner. May 9. Read as I went to town to Cabinet, and returned in the carriage Cabell's memorandum on the Hyderabad transactions. The Duke read the letter he had received from Sir H. Halford. It gave a bad account of the King.
No one else could have taken such a liberty with her, but Cabell's references to old Caesar's declining health, and his innuendoes whenever she was "fixed up" that she was "looking around" in advance only amused her. It made no difference to her that he was poor, while several others of Betty's beaux were rich. He was "a gent'man," and she was an aristocrat.
I had just finished organizing a new intelligence group when General Cabell's order to review past UFO reports came down. Lieutenant Colonel Rosengarten, who received the order at ATIC, called me in and wanted to know if I'd take the job of making the review. I accepted.
If the poets and warriors who make up the list of Mr. Cabell's heroes devote their lives almost wholly to love, it is for the reason that no other emotion interests him so much or seems to him to furnish so many beautiful happenings about which to write perfectly. Love, like art, is a species of creation, and the moods which attend it, though illusions, are miracles none the less.
Nothing but remarkable erudition in the antiquities as Cockaigne and Faery could possibly suffice for such adventures as Mr. Cabell's, and he has very remarkable erudition in all that concerns the regions which delight him.
Cabell's mouthpiece to set forth the doctrine that romance is the real demiurge, "the first and loveliest daughter of human vanity," whereby mankind is duped and exalted. "No one on the preferable side of Bedlam wishes to be reminded of what we are in actuality, even were it possible, by any disastrous miracle, ever to dispel the mist which romance has evoked about all human doings."
I trust this will be got over. Leopold has written an unsatisfactory answer to the last letter about the loan. However, he goes. The Porte has acquiesced in the arrangements of the protocol, so Leopold is Prince Sovereign of Greece. The Duke read Cabell's memorandum to-day. He thinks Cabell proposes doing more than should be done.
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