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Malo, who had come from Bourbon to establish at Manilla some manufactories for baking sugar; of Bermigan, a young Spaniard; and my friend, Captain Gabriel Lafond, like myself, from Nantes.
His manner was brisk and buoyant, his face shone with health and content. He was cordiality itself to the man whom he had greeted with but cool civility on the Rhine. "I feel ready for anything," said he, "and am going back at once. Cary and Elmendorf go with me, but Flo and her aunt want to stay awhile in Paris. Look them up, will you, if you go there? Hôtel Lafond." Forrest promised.
All these articles had not been purchased in the United States; they were the work of a man who had never seen any instrument, who had no person to consult, and who was acquainted with the phenomena of electricity only by reading the treatise of De Lafond, and Franklin's Memoirs.
In the character of kings, he scarcely now appears but to personate tyrants. He is very cold, and speaks through his nose like a Capuchin friar, which has gained him the appellation of the Reverend Father NAUDET. First parts or principal lovers, in Tragedy. TALMA, and LAFOND.
Lafond was a native of Brabant, and had served in the British army. He insulted the Frenchman because he wore the national cockade A duel was the consequence, and the offended party fell. M. Reinhart, my predecessor wished to punish Lafond, but the Austrian Minister having claimed him as the subject of his sovereign, he was not molested. Lafond took refuge in Antwerp, where he became a player.
TALMA requires only concentered rage, sentiments of hatred and vengeance, which certainly belong to tragedy, but which ought not to be expressed as if they came from the mouth of a low fellow, unworthy of figuring in an action of this kind; and LAFOND is little qualified for any other than graceful parts, bordering on knight-errantry or romance. His best character is Achille.
This, however, is part of the scheme the bloated, unnatural, stilted, spouting, sham sublime, that our teachers have believed and tried to pass off as real, and which your humble servant and other antihumbuggists should heartily, according to the strength that is in them, endeavor to pull down. What, for instance, could Monsieur Lafond care about the death of Eudamidas?
Death of my Brother Robert Our Party at Jala-Jala Illness and Last Moments of my Friend Bermigan Recovery and Departure for France or Lafond Joachim Balthazard: his Eccentricity Tremendous Gale of Wind Narrow Escape in Crossing the Lake Safe Return to Jala-Jala Destruction of my House and the Village by a Typhoon Rendezvous with a Bandit Ineffectual Attempts to Reform Him His Death Journey to Tapuzi Its Inaccessibility Government of the Tapuzians Morality and Religious Character of their Chief Their Curiosity at Beholding a White Man Former Wickedness and Divine Punishment We bid Adieu to the Tapuzians, and Return to Jala-Jala.
During all the reign of terror, TALMA and his wife were in continual fear of the scaffold. LAFOND. TALMA reigned, and was in possession of the first cast of parts.
The latter, however, is said to possess a knowledge of the style of playing of the actors who, thirty years ago, graced the French stage, and consequently may be capable of giving good advice. By means of this powerful protection, LAFOND got the better of every difficulty.
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