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"A free country?" "Search me!" replied his compatriot, wearily. "I never seen such a band as I have to deal with out in the Twentieth. Why, my God! a man can't call his name his own any more out here. It's got so now the newspapers tell everybody what to do." Alderman Pinski and Alderman Hoherkorn, conferring together in one corner, were both very dour.
My compatriot used to tell this very bald-headed German all sorts of fictions about himself, which the doctor had always 'long ago anticipated. He used to mimic his astonishment at any new, exceptional symptom, to throw his medicines out of window, and so on.
While Vladimir spoke, Gilbert thought to himself, "This man is truly the compatriot of Count Leminof." And then recalling the amiable and generous Muscovite with whom he had once been intimate, he justly concluded that Russia is large, and that nature, taking pleasure in contrasts, produces in that great country alternately the hardest and the most tender souls in the world.
The ride and the cold air of morning had made him ravenous. Grumbach rose and caught Carmichael by the arm. "Your pardon, sir," he said in good English, "but you are Mr. Carmichael, the American consul?" "I am." "Will you kindly look over my papers?" Grumbach asked. "You are from the United States?" Then Carmichael remembered that this must be the compatriot who arrived the night before.
When it became known to the Britons on the shore of the yellow Tiber that their intelligent compatriot, Mr Sparkler, was made one of the Lords of their Circumlocution Office, they took it as a piece of news with which they had no nearer concern than with any other piece of news any other Accident or Offence in the English papers.
She forgot to ask him whether he knew his beautiful compatriot or not; but she took it for granted that they had met, if not at home, at least in London, as they had both been made so much of, and at the same houses.
I lose no moment in coming here to pay my homage to the disinterested valor which gave my compatriot his freedom, I am, sir," he bowed and extended his hands with a smiling humility "I am, sir, this many years a pensioner on the bounty of Miss Rossano. She knows me as a comrade of the father whom she has always until now thought of as lost to her.
The first person Bonaparte met at the head of the staircase was his compatriot, Colonel Sebastiani, then commanding the 9th Dragoons. "Ah! is that you, Sebastiani?" said Bonaparte. "Where are your men?" "In line along the Rue de la Victoire, general." "Well disposed?" "Enthusiastic! I distributed among them ten thousand cartridges which I had in store."
In addition to this, after a half hour's conversation d'Artagnan was convinced that Milady was his compatriot; she spoke French with an elegance and a purity that left no doubt on that head. D'Artagnan was profuse in gallant speeches and protestations of devotion. To all the simple things which escaped our Gascon, Milady replied with a smile of kindness. The hour came for him to retire.
Obviously, he had visions, as had his compatriot Joan of Arc, who suffered even a crueller fate than he at the hands of a few bloodthirsty English noblemen, who disgraced the name of soldier by not only allowing her to be burnt, but selling her to the parasitical Bishops with that object in view.
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