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He did not lack discernment as to what was wisest and best; but he was too easily influenced by others, or led by the hope of gaining some glittering prize which ambition coveted, to turn his back upon his own convictions. It was this weakness which swept him beyond his depth into troubled waters where his struggles were hopeless.
"To assassinate Bonaparte" was a sort of game, in which the English were specially active. From their shores, well-equipped and plentifully supplied with money, sailed many who were desirous of gaining the great stake, obdurate Chouans and fanatical royalists who regarded as an act of piety the crime that would rid France of the usurper.
It is with some very considerable hesitation that I come to this portion of my personal recollections, and yet I feel that I owe it to my fellow-citizens in this delightful Stygian country, where we are all enjoying our well-earned rest, to lay before them the exact truth concerning certain incidents which have now passed into history, and for participation in which a number of familiar figures are improperly gaining all the credit, or discredit, as the case may be.
I will give it gladly to him," she murmured. "You love him, child?" "Dearly. I shall be proud and happy to become the wife of Luiz," gaining courage. "You have my answer, Falcam. May you be content always. I give her to you with pleasure."
The young nobility formed an agreement called the Compromise, to withstand the king's system, at first by legal means . They were contemptuously called "beggars" by the regent, and themselves adopted the name. The king professed a willingness to make some concessions: he was only gaining time for measures of a different sort.
Gaining possession of them in a short time, he turned upon the enemy the full fire of their own cannon. The play of artillery upon their flank, and the terrible onslaught of the Swedes in front, threw this hitherto invincible army into confusion. A sudden retreat was the only course left to Tilly, but even this was to be made through the midst of the enemy.
She did not release her grasp, seemingly gaining courage from this physical contact, and my fingers closed warmly over her own. "Now please," breathlessly, "how is it possible you are aboard this vessel an officer?" I told her the strange story, as swiftly and simply as possible, speaking scarcely above a whisper, feeling as I progressed that I related a dream rather than a series of facts.
Never before in the experiences of the intelligences of heaven, had such dire events been foreshadowed. A crisis was certainly at hand. Lucifer was fast gaining influence among the spirits and they had their agency to follow whom they would. The revolting spirit had skill in argument; and the light-minded, the discontented, and the rebellious were won over.
Gradually he grew cold and morose towards me, left me for days at a time, and returned only to abuse and treat me cruelly. He had possession of all my money, which I soon found he was gambling away, without gaining an entrée for me into society.
The one is Monte Carlo where the Goddess Fortune is chiefly worshipped steeped in almost perpetual sunshine, piled in castellated masses against its hills, gaining the sense of the illimitable from the blue horizon of the Mediterranean a shining land meant for clean exercise and repose.
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