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I want a hostess, you know." "I will," said Sissie, straight. No consultation of parents! This brief episode overset Mrs. Prohack. The lunch worsened, to such a point that Mr. Prohack began to grow light-hearted, and chaffed Charlie in his turn. He found material for chaff in the large number of newly bought books that were lying about the room.
Denys gazed wonder-struck; and in that unlucky moment, suddenly he felt his arm hot, then cold, and there was an English arrow skewering it. This episode was unnoticed in a much greater matter. The knight, his armour glittering in the morning sun, fell headlong, but turning as he neared the water, struck it with a slap that sounded a mile off. None ever thought to see him again.
Monsieur Drouyn De Lhuys said there had been no distinction whatever between the two Commanders of the two nations except inasmuch as the British Naval Force at that time in the Port of Genoa was of so much more commanding a character. 'I am, &c., Extracts from 'An Episode of Italian Unification' by General Alfonso la Marmora.
I have described this horrible episode, firstly as an example of the sort of ghastly event which war brings in its train, but principally to brand with shame the conduct and lack of good faith of the Austrian general, who forced soldiers who had been captured and released on parole, to take up arms against us once more, although he had promised to send them back to Germany.
And at the same time, to be angry and sorry over so wretched an episode seems like trying to be wiser than the mind that made us. What single gleam of brightness is it possible to extract from the pitiful little story?
When Toni related the episode of Lady Martin's note to Eva Herrick, the latter asked a startling question. "Toni, why don't you leave your husband?" "Leave my husband?" Toni stared at her, wide-eyed. "Yes. Oh, anyone can see you're neither of you happy. Mr.
Homer was doubtless a patriot, but he shows no signs of having been a bigot. He described that great international episode with singular impartiality; what chiefly interested him was the play of human nature.
There were only a few "business details" to arrange, and the episode would be closed. But the trouble was not over. Hidden away among the "business details" was the germ of a great war. The Emperor of Russia "felt obliged to demand guarantees, formal and positive," assuring the security of the Greek Christians in the Sultan's dominions.
"It depends on what you regard as an adventure," she smiled. "I should think the episode of the cab, with what followed at your apartment, was very much in that line?" "Oh, to be sure!" exclaimed Harleston, with an air of complete surprise. "However did Great Heavens, Madeline, were you the woman of the roses and the cab?" "You know that I wasn't!" she replied.
It may not be in my day; but it will be in yours, I do really believe." The defeat of Fremont soon verified Lincoln's prediction on that score. A peculiarly interesting episode of Lincoln's life belongs to this period, though unrelated to political events.
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