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At any rate Bacon seems to have given the coup de grace to allegory in England. Under the influence of Pico della Mirandola it was resurrected from its tomb by Henry Reynolds; but it was a much less moral allegory and a more mystical. Prose is the proper vehicle of moral doctrine and should have been employed by Spenser.
But for the moment the colonel was mainly interested in the stock value of Colonel Dan Boundary and the possibility of violent fluctuations. He was losing grip. The story of Jack o' Judgment had circulated with amazing rapidity, by all manner of underground channels, to people vitally concerned. Crewe, who had been a stand-by in almost every big coup he had pulled off, was as stable as pulp.
"Ain't we going by train 'cos I got the tickets." "No." "Well, 'ang on a minute while I gets the money back." But even this business coup was denied and with a sense of opportunity lost he entered the car. There was nothing prepossessing in Freddie Dirk's appearance. He was of the low brow, heavy jaw, bruiser type. The term a "tough" fits him closely.
Kinglake, in a page of immortal beauty, has described the scene when, thirty days after the Coup d'état, Louis Napoleon appeared in Notre Dame to receive, amid all the pomp that Catholic ceremonial could give, the solemn blessing of the Church, and to listen to the Te Deum thanking the Almighty for what had been accomplished.
Left as propraetor in charge of the army, this man, in January 109, determined to try and carry off Jugurtha's treasures by a coup de main. Then, on a dark night, he surrounded the army. The traitors whom he had bribed deserted their posts.
Some determined men as all of Georges' companions were undertook to get into the park at Malmaison at night, seize Bonaparte and throw him into a carriage which thirty Chouans, dressed as dragoons, would escort as far as the coast. They actually began to put this theatrical "coup" into execution.
The adjutant who commands the platoon raises his sword the rifles come in into position two seconds and the sword falls!" "A salute!" "Harietta Boleski is no more. "The fair body drops to earth and immediately an Adjutant of Dragoons goes swiftly to the post, revolver pointed, and gives the coup de grace. "'Arme sur l'epaule Droit. A droit. En avant. Marche!
The host, indeed, had planned, but found no time in which to execute, a new and daring coup, before his son had sprung to his feet, lifted his brimming glass in a hand grown tremulous, and dashed it violently at the nearest wall, where it shivered into splinters, its contents falling, in one heavy, golden mass, upon the rug.
Tom's diversion was successful; he carried off the ladies en masse to look at a remarkable specimen of the class Dodecandria Monogynia which they could not find while Seaforth marched boldly up to the encounter, and carried "the governor's" outworks by a coup de main.
She wrapped it close about her, so close that Lady Isabel, while unable to stifle a motherly regret for the wedding that might have been, thanked heaven that Christian had not "really cared"; so close that even Judith said that, since Christian had not been hit too hard, though she regretted the coup manqué she personally found some consolation in the fact that she would not be called upon to make apologies for the political aberrations of her brother-in-law.
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