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Louis, February 9, 1884. His Excellency CHESTER A. ARTHUR, President of the United States. DEAR SIR: Permit me with a soldier's frankness to thank you personally for the handsome compliment bestowed in general orders of yesterday, which are reported in the journals of the day. To me it was a surprise and a most agreeable one.
"The daughter of L'Aigle, she cuff Louis, she slap his cheek, she call him lump lout slouch! Ha, ha! Louis no fool he pare the claws of L'Aigle to-night!" At that, Little Fellow's stolid face took on a vindictive gleam, and he snapped out something in Indian tongue which set Louis to laughing.
At his death war breaks out. Pepin dies, leaving, however, a son Pepin to inherit his kingdom of Aquitaine. Louis and Charles attempt to take his kingdom from him, his uncle Lothair defends him, and at the great battle of Fontenay Louis and Charles defeat Lothair.
I don't care to interfere, only I thought you would like to hear from him." "What's he doing?" asked Mrs. Kent. "He was in St. Louis when I left, looking out for a situation." "I wash my hands of him. He might live easily enough if he would submit to me. If not, he will probably have to submit to a great many privations." "He is a pretty smart boy; he'll get along."
Montespan and the old woman had spoiled him and hardened his heart against his relations, for he was naturally of a very affectionate disposition. Louis XIV., as well as all the rest of his family, with the exception of my son, hated reading. Neither the King nor Monsieur had been taught anything; they scarcely knew how to read and write.
But these were not the instinctive dreams by which a boy accustoms himself to the phenomena of life, steels himself to every moral or physical perception an involuntary education which subsequently brings forth fruit both in the understanding and character of a man; no, Louis mastered the facts, and he accounted for them after seeking out both the principle and the end with the mother wit of a savage.
"A message from M. de Mazarin," replied the usher. "Give it to me," said the king; and he took the paper. But at the moment he was about to open it, there was a great noise in the gallery, the ante-chamber, and the court. "Ah, ah," said Louis XIV., who doubtless knew the meaning of that triple noise. "How could I say there was but one king in France! I was mistaken, there are two."
On the accession of the Duke of Anjou to the Spanish throne, in 1701, a grand alliance was formed, headed by the Emperor of Germany and the King of England, to dethrone him. Louis
Our quarrel with Louis has been long over; and it now gratifies neither zeal nor malice to see him painted with aggravated features, like a Saracen upon a sign.
Louis." The others followed within the appointed time. Before the autumn of 1861, the river navy of the United States numbered nearly a score of vessels, while nearly forty mortar-boats were in process of construction. Of this flotilla, Capt. A. H. Foote, an able naval officer, was put in command, and directed to co-operate with the land forces in all movements.
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