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Some four hundred, with several officers, were confined in the Millbay barracks, and it was a considerable time after the war ended when they were sent back to Russia. While in England they were well cared for, the rations were excellent, and visitors were allowed to see them once a week. The prisoners would make fancy articles, such as rings, pins, slippers, etc., and sell them to the visitors.
"My dear Boyer, I thank you, and accept your proposition; but suppose I was to propose to the young duke this stable? It is all ready; it is known and admired by all Paris." "Exactly so; you might make a mint." "But why do you not propose this house to him, so admirably furnished? What can he find better?" "Edward, you are a man of mind; it does not surprise me, but you give me an excellent idea.
The American people have cause for profound gratification, both in view of the excellent condition of the fleet as shown by this cruise, and in view of the improvement the cruise has worked in this already high condition. I do not believe that there is any other service in the world in which the average of character and efficiency in the enlisted men is as high as is now the case in our own.
He spoke of Doctor Thorpe, and said that, having heard the Doctor in Dublin, he should like to hear him again in London. "Nothing easier," quoth Littleton; "his chapel is only two doors off; and he will be just mounting the pulpit." "No," said Lord Plunket; "I can't lose my dinner." An excellent saying, though one which a less able man than Lord Plunket might have uttered.
"Do recite it." "I don't know that I can remember it all. You won't laugh if I break down." "I promise." "Oh! that is jolly. Well, I never thought the girl was clever enough to write that. And there are some excellent rhymes in it, 'passed he' rhyming with 'nasty, and 'rosary' with 'poser, eh; and how well you recite it."
The quinta commanded an excellent view of the Yumuri, on the one hand, and of the town and harbor on the other; no one ever climbed the hill from the city to gaze over into that hidden valley without feeling a pleasurable surprise at finding it still there.
Wherefore he counselleth: Look neither too much up, nor down at all, But, forward stepping, strive no more to fall. And the advice is excellent; but, as is again said: The preacher preacheth, and the hearer heareth, But comfort first each function requireth. And 'wisdom to a hungry stomach is thin pottage, saith the shrewd reader of men.
Young, and looking even younger than his years "not only of an excellent wit, but extremely beautiful of face" with delicately chiselled Anglo-Norman features, smooth fair cheek, a faint moustache, blue eyes, and a mass of amber-coloured hair; such was the author of 'Arcadia' and the governor of Flushing.
One excellent clergyman told us that the 'eye of a needle' meant a low, Oriental postern through which camels could not pass till they were unloaded which is very likely just; and then went on, bravely confounding the 'kingdom of God' with heaven, the future paradise, to show that of course no rich person could expect to carry his riches beyond the grave which, of course, he could not and never did.
Sidi Boubikir was in excellent spirits, and told many stories of his earlier days, of his dealings with Bashadors, his quarrel with the great kaid Ben Daoud, the siege of the city by certain Illegitimate men enemies of Allah and the Sultan his journey to Gibraltar, and how he met one of the Rothschilds there and tried to do business with him.
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