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"See how it followed him and stayed by him, from his first step all through, in the field or out of it; always a splendid figure in the public eye, courted and envied everywhere; always having a chance to do fine things and always doing them; in the beginning called the Paladin in joke, and called it afterward in earnest because he magnificently made the title good; and at last supremest luck of all died in the field! died with his harness on; died faithful to his charge, the Standard in his hand; died oh, think of it with the approving eye of Joan of Arc upon him!
One after another those on shore felt the insolence of his stare, and shifted uneasily. Then his deliberate scrutiny rose to the group by the cannon. Virginia caught her breath sharply. In spite of herself she could not turn away. The stranger's eye crossed her own. She saw the hard look fade into pleased surprise. Instantly his hat swept the gunwale of the canoe. He stepped magnificently ashore.
She was magnificently dressed in a pale green gown, the color of water-cress, embroidered in silver, and wore a splendid head-dress. I thought I had never seen her more truly the great lady. She knew, of course, what Gaston's adventure had been, but I suppose he had not given her all the particulars. The supper was singularly merry, perhaps owing to the absence of the king.
The special point I seek to make is that as we are all in danger on one subject or another, of breaking out into millions of Lodges any minute, that we should make the most of our new national chance of our power as a people just now just before the two great national conventions of the parties to which we mostly belong, to make deliberate and national arrangements to be on our guard against ourselves, to see to it that we nominate and elect to The White House, from whatever walk of life he comes, a man who will have himself magnificently in hand, a man who will not trickle off before the people into his own private temperament, pocket himself up in his own class, or put down the lid of his own party gently but firmly over his soul a man who will be the President of all the people everywhere all the time.
This warning was quite public, and came to the ears of the English officer almost at once. When he heard it he laughed. He had three hundred men, and the rebels had three hundred. His were all magnificently trained and drilled troops, men made for war; the Burmans were peasants, unarmed, untrained.
Being thus cured as by a miracle, I had rather not lose time, but continue my journey. The two women, who were fairies as well as their mistress, after they had told the magician how glad they were that she was cured so soon, walked before her, and conducted her through several apartments into a large hall, the most richly and magnificently furnished of all the palace.
She had spent a year and a half in Ireland in 1731-32, and her letters give a lively account of society in Dublin. Matthew Dubourg, an excellent violinist, was at the head of the Viceroy's band, and musical entertainments were frequent, for to judge from Mrs. Pendarves' descriptions the Irish bishops and deans lived almost as magnificently as the cardinals in Rome. Mrs.
If not a king himself, at least he goes magnificently to settle the affairs of kings. Were modesty not my failing, Mistress Cyn, I would acclaim you as strangely lucky, in being beloved by two fine fellows that have not their like in England." "Truly, you are not always thus modest, Kit Marlowe " "But, Lord, how seriously Pevensey takes it all! and takes himself in particular!
"Well, half a pound of powder will make a difference," said Tom thoughtfully. "I'll take him a pound," said Dick magnificently. "How are you going to get it?" "How am I going to get it!" said Dick. "Why, let Sam Farles bring it from Spalding; and I tell you what, I won't give him the pound. I'll give him half a pound, and you shall give him the other."
The torture-chamber, which she has depicted in such lively colors, may yet one day open for her, too not that she may behold another's agonies, but that she may suffer agonies herself. We shall one day avenge ourselves!" Miss Holland, the beautiful and much-admired mistress of the Duke of Norfolk, was alone in her magnificently adorned boudoir.
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