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Judge Hobart expects Colonels Burr and Troup will make his suite to the October court, where he hopes to usher them, with all the eclat due to their merit. He counts the weeks, which he has now reduced to five. While the warmth of friendship animates his countenance, his heart swells with pride at the honour of patronising two such characters.

Henri IV and Louis XIII gave Saint Germain its first great éclat as a suburban place of sojourn, and from the comings and goings of the court of that time there gradually grew up the present city of twenty thousand inhabitants; not all of them of courtly manners, as one learns from a recollection of certain facts of contemporary modern history.

He was now a fat, good-humoured, middle-aged, comfortable man, who made the most, in his trade, of the eclat which attended him, as having been the faithful servant of the most popular among the Vendean leaders.

A reward of 1,000 pounds, issued for the apprehension of the ringleaders, only gave additional eclat to the fact, without leading to the apprehension of the assailants. The personal unpopularity of the Regent seems to have increased, in proportion as death removed from him all those who stood nearest to the throne.

The varied resources of the great art of tragedy were consummately drawn forth by her Desdemona, in this opera, though she was yet to astonish the world with that impersonation imperishably linked with her name in the history of art. "Elisabetta" and "Mosè in Egitto" were also revived for her, and she filled the leading characters in both with éclat. In January, 1824, Mme.

The cricket-match came off with great éclat; in spite of a steady thirteen from the Rector, who spent two hours in "compiling" it to use the technical term and of several catches missed by Sir Roderick, who was tried in vain in all positions in the field, the Manor team won by five wickets, and Bob Territon felt that his summer had been well spent.

"I am a pastry cook," he went on; "my specialty is Saint-Denis apple tarts." A marmite intended for the road landed in the river as he spoke. "Have you ever had one? They are very good when made with fresh cream." He sighed. "How did you get wounded?" said I. "Éclat d'obus," he replied, as if that were the whole story. After a pause he added, "Douaumont yesterday."

The striking originality, the fire, the passion of his music, the ardent national feeling, and the freshness of treatment, gave a genuine shock of delight and surprise to the German world. The opera of "Preciosa," also a masterpiece, was given shortly after with great eclat, though it failed to inspire the deep enthusiasm which greeted "Der Freischütz."

Poet, orator, diplomatist, minister, he was a man of genius, who stands out as a great figure in history; not so great as Talleyrand in the single department of diplomacy, but an infinitely more respectable and many-sided man. He had an immense éclat in the early part of this century as writer and poet, although his literary fame has now greatly declined.

But the Counsellor, indifferent to the high character for learning which he was trifling away, filled himself a large glass of Burgundy, and, after preluding a little with a voice somewhat the worse for the wear, gave the ladies a courageous invitation to join in 'We be Three Poor Mariners, and accomplished his own part therein with great eclat.