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About the 18th of December we took up a position before the fort of Deig, and in two days after broke ground against it. The two companies to which I belonged led the column, carrying tools for working. The night was as dark as pitch, and bitterly cold.

Fashion, that masker of nature, that creator of deformity, had, in truth, arrived at an unparalleled pitch of ugliness. The German costume, although sometimes extravagantly curious during the Middle Ages, had nevertheless always retained a certain degree of picturesque beauty, nor was it until the reign of Louis XIV. of France that dress assumed an unnatural, inconvenient, and monstrous form.

At the crest of the hill the 65th came upon Imboden's battery the Staunton Artillery four smoothbore, brass six-pounders, guns, and caissons drawn by half the proper number of horses the rest being killed and conducted by wounded, exhausted, powder-grimed and swearing artillerymen. Imboden, in front, was setting the pitch.

It was plain, pitiably plain, that he was aware of his own defect of memory, and that he was bent on hiding it from the observation of his friends. Thus far he had appealed to my compassion only. But the words he had just said few as they were roused my curiosity instantly to the highest pitch.

"Oh, ah, of course. Now then, let's have it. Do you want me to write a verse for your tombstone?" "They'd pitch me overboard," said Long, dolefully. "Not they," said Bob. "This promising young officer, who had taken it into his head that he had been wounded by a poisoned kris, was buried under a palm tree, to the great relief of all who knew him, for they found him the most conceited "

Some of these treasures still remain in the country, a large number have been purchased by art connoisseurs and taken to various parts of the world, while many, of course, have from various causes perished. Under the conditions of life which obtained in old Japan the ceramic art reached a pitch of excellence, not to say glory, which it is never likely to attain either in Japan or elsewhere.

We accordingly determined to pitch our camp there, near a wood from which we could obtain materials for building huts, and an ample supply of fuel for our fires as well as game for our food. It seemed surprising that no blacks should have taken up their abode in what appeared to us so fine a situation. We lost no time in erecting our huts, and making ourselves, as Tom called it, "at home."

It was while the lecturer was expatiating on this subject of titles, that he broke out in the following language: "Don't talk to me," he bellowed for by this time his voice had risen to the pitch of a methodist's, in a camp-meeting "Don't talk to me of antiquity, and time, and length of possession, as things to be respected. They're nawthin jest nawthin' at all.

She did not answer, and presently she got up and said she was going to bed. She gave a timid little smile. "It's Christmas Day, Philip, won't you kiss me good-night?" He gave a laugh, blushed slightly, and kissed her. She went to her bed-room and he began to read. The climax came two or three weeks later. Mildred was driven by Philip's behaviour to a pitch of strange exasperation.

Furthermore, we may readily understand how difficult it is to maintain in the same course men prone to every form of credulity. For, as the mass of mankind remains always at about the same pitch of misery, it never assents long to any one remedy, but is always best pleased by a novelty which has yet proved illusive.