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"Have you a copy of the French Constitution?" was asked of a bookseller during the second French Empire, and the characteristically witty Gallic reply was: "We do not deal in periodical literature." Constitutions, as governmental panaceas, have come and gone; but it can be said of the American Constitution, paraphrasing the noble tribute of Dr.
She was wonderful yet, with her white hair and straight nose, her erect figure still slight. Alison knew that Mrs. Atterbury had never forgiven her for rejecting her son or rather for being the kind of woman who could reject him. "Surely you haven't been here all summer?" Alison admitted it, characteristically, without explanations.
He did not understand, though he was forced to believe. He swore characteristically at the luck, and then at the great specialist. "I've known Indian medicine-men who could give that doctor cards an' spades," he exploded, with gruff finality. Lenore understood her father perfectly and imagined she understood the celebrated scientist. The former was just human and the latter was simply knowledge.
Hope, characteristically curious in vases, turned me round to a famous malachite vase which was given by the Emperor of Russia to Lord Londonderry square, upon a pedestal high as my little table; and another, a present of I forget who. So, you see, he has a congress of vases, en desire-t-il mieux?
For their gallant conduct at Ticonderoga the "Black Watch" were made a "Royal" regiment by the King. The Black Watch was quartered for many years afterwards in Canada and quite a few of the descendants of these old warriors helped to make history for the Canadians in this latest and "Greatest War." The second appearance of the armed Highlander in Canada was characteristically dramatic.
That sort of ugly disillusionment, that publicity of disappointment, that frank disregard of all concerns except one's own, is one of the most hideous features of middle-class life, and it is rather characteristically English. It sometimes conceals a robust good sense and even kindliness; but it is a base thing at best, and seems to be the shadow of commercial prosperity.
"P'r'aps, monsieur," suggested Gibault hesitatingly, "you had better vait for de canoe." "Lead on!" said the artist, cocking both pistols, and pointing with one of them to the place whence the growl had issued. Gibault elevated his eyebrows, shrugged his shoulders characteristically, and, uttering the single word "bien!" walked quickly forward.
He wanted to make Thiers one of his ministers, but Thiers characteristically declined so high an office until he should have served an apprenticeship to ministerial work in an under secretary-ship, and knew the machinery and the working of all departments of government. Thus far I have not spoken of Thiers' "History of the Revolution." It appeared first in monthly parts.
War is a new province of the state's activity, but, characteristically enough, it does not evolve its own numen, but enlarges the sphere of the somewhat elastic spirits already existing. So too in the internal organisation of the state there is felt the need of a religious sanction for public morality, and Iuppiter though vaguely at first takes on him the character of a deity of justice.
Pausing at the door, he told his visitors: "I'm sorry to disappoint you, but your zeal is utterly misplaced. I live like a pasha, in the midst of debilitating luxuries, as you will see for yourselves." He waved them proudly inside. The room was bare, damp, and chill; it was furnished plentifully, but it was in characteristically masculine disorder.
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