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She glanced down at the boy as she spoke, and into her eyes, very clear and very blue and shaded by long dark lashes, stole a look of wistful tenderness. She noted how his little hand was clasped in Yancy's, she realized the perfect trust of his whole attitude toward this big bearded man, and she was conscious of a sudden feeling of profound respect for the Scratch Hiller.
Frau Hiller was indeed an exceptional Jewish woman of Polish origin, and she was perhaps all the more exceptional seeing that she, in company with her husband, had been baptized a Protestant in Italy. Hiller began his career in Dresden with the production of his opera, Der Traum in der Christnacht.
Hiller, however, at least saved his honor by pushing forward to the Traun, and, in a fearfully bloody encounter at Ebelsberg, capturing three French eagles, one of his colors alone falling into the enemy's hands. He was, nevertheless, compelled to retire before the superior forces of the French, and Napoleon entered Vienna unopposed.
Design on the arm of a Peng man. From a drawing by Dr. H. Hiller of Philadelphia. Design on the arm of a Kabayan man. From a drawing by Dr. H. Hiller of Philadelphia. Design on the forearm of a Lepu Lutong woman. From a drawing. Design on the forearm of a Long Utan woman. From a rubbing of a carved model in the Sarawak Museum. Design on the thigh of a Long Utan woman.
The engineer paused, and the tense, waiting silence became almost too much to bear. Hiller knew what the men were waiting for. "We found no pictures," he said. "We'll continue the examination in the laboratory, of course. But as of this moment we cannot say whether it was the kind of accident that rocketeers always have to expect, or whether someone tampered with the pump.
She writes that she cannot find inspiration; that he is the family's genius for original work. Always they mingled music with love. The composer Hiller gave a notable dinner to Liszt, who, after toasting Mendelssohn, toasted Schumann, "and spoke of me in such beautiful French and such tender words, that I turned blood-red."
It was about this time that the Polish Countess Plater said, speaking of the genial Ferdinand Hiller and the two cronies: "I would choose Hiller for my friend, Chopin for my husband, Liszt for my lover." There seems to have been a snow-storm of love affairs at this period. It is impossible even to name the flakes.
A German, like the eminent Liszt and the great Mendelssohn, and Steibelt, and Dussek, and Meyer, and Mozart, and Doelher, and Thalberg, and Dreschok, and Hiller, and Leopold Hertz, Woertz, Karr, Wolff, Pixis, and Clara Wieck and all Germans, generally speaking.
"Can't you tell the children a story, Mr. Yancy? Something about their own neighborhood I think would be nice, something with a moral," the pleasant earnest voice f Mrs. Ferris roused the Scratch Hiller from his meditations. "Yes, ma'am, I reckon I can tell 'em a story." He stood up, filling the doorway with his bulk.
Hiller was to guard the line of the Inn, the Archduke Ferdinand was to march against Warsaw, while the Archduke John was to enter the Tyrol from Italy and excite the people to revolt. On April ninth all these movements were well under way; Hiller had reached the Inn, and Charles declared war. Ostensibly this war was to be unlike any other so far waged.
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