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The Baronet's eye, as he raised it to the splendour, fell right upon the central scutcheon, inpressed with the same device which his ancestor was said to have borne in the field of Hastings, three ermines passant, argent, in a field azure, with its appropriate motto, Sans tache.
By all this I learnt that the Prince had no great understanding with the Court, and upon his arrival at Ruel I ventured to go thither. Both the Queen and the Cardinal were extremely civil, and the latter took particular notice of the Prince's behaviour to me, who embraced me 'en passant' in the garden, and spoke very low to me, saying that he would be at my house next day.
The news of the Spion Kop affair, anxiety on account of Kimberley, the presence of Cronje at Magersfontein and other considerations, determined him to march through the Free State by a more northerly route which would enable him to relieve Kimberley en passant and to give battle to Cronje.
Rachel, who will never believe your view and prospects settled, and the three ermines passant in actual safety, until you present them with a Mrs. Edward Waverley. Now, certain love-affairs of my own a good many years since interrupted some measures which were then proposed in favour of the three ermines passant; so I am bound in honour to make them amends.
I will remark en passant, however, that by "unearned increment" I mean exactly what I suppose Mr. George to mean increase in the market value of land for which the proprietor is not responsible.
One objection which has been made, and made with reason, is that Fielding, while taking care that Nemesis shall follow his hero's lapses, has spoken of them with too much indulgence, or rather without sufficient excuse. James Gillman to The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published by H. N. Coleridge in 1836. Another point suggested by these last lines may be touched en passant.
This I afterward discovered was one of the secret signs of the San Luang; and the warning signal was addressed to me, because they imagined that I also was a member of the Council. En passant, a word as to the ordinary and familiar costumes of the palace.
I should mention, en passant, that when the beer-bearer of the camp was sent for the three pots, he was told to "go over to Bill and borrow his two-gallon jug and be very careful not to let him find out what it was for."
Anna Hethbridge had therefore been annexed en passant. In person she was youthful and rather handsome her fortune was extremely handsome. So Seymour Michael went out to India engaged to be married to this girl who was unfortunate enough to love him. In India two things happened. Firstly, Seymour Michael met a second young lady with a fortune twice as large as that of Miss Anna Hethbridge.
The three ermines passant and rampant bear would certainly have gone together by the ears. He then, with all the ardour of a young lover, assured the Baron that he sought for his happiness only in Rose's heart and hand, and thought himself as happy in her father's simple approbation as if he had settled an earldom upon his daughter. They now reached Little Veolan.
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