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What? private secretary to a minister, plunged at once into European cabals and Parisian intrigues; having kings, and, better still, queens, to protect, parties to unite, elections to direct; making more use of your cabinet with your pen and your telegraph than Napoleon did of his battle-fields with his sword and his victories; possessing five and twenty thousand francs a year, besides your place; a horse, for which Chateau-Renaud offered you four hundred louis, and which you would not part with; a tailor who never disappoints you; with the opera, the jockey-club, and other diversions, can you not amuse yourself?
Upon the adjournment of court for dinner, immediately thereafter, one Ben Mason, the wit of the bar, and not himself wholly unacquainted with the pastime that involved spades, kings, and even queens, ardently congratulated the new foreman upon his appointment, assuring him that now his opportunity had come to put to an end, by the omnipotent power of the Grand Jury, "to the nefarious habit of card-playing which was ruining the morals of so many young men in Scotland County."
But she passed away, and Spain misused him. But now they send their royalties to meet with all the kings and queens of the earth to bow down to his memory. As we wended out, the caravels lay there in the calm water the Santa Maria, the Pinta, and the Nina, all becalmed in front of the convent. No more rough seas in front of 'em; they furl their sails in the sunlight of success.
Then the roof fell with a mighty crash, which seemed for a time to subdue the powerful conflagration; the walls cracked, parted, and fell; statues of kings and queens were flung from their niches; and in a couple of hours this building, which had been the pride and glory of British Merchants, was a blackened ruin. The citizens were now in a state of despair.
All the worry and calculation all the moves of pawns, bishops, knights, castles, and queens, all to shelter the throne which is not worth protecting! Excellent! Mademoiselle, you are not in favor of monarchies!" "I do not know," said Thelma; "I have never thought of such things. But kings should be great men, wise and powerful, better and braver than all their subjects, should they not?"
"Has he not commanded to receive me?" inquired Ramses. "Tomorrow morning after the military council." "What are the queens doing?" "The first queen is praying in the chamber of her dead son, and thy worthy mother is receiving the Phoenician ambassador, who has brought her gifts from the women of Tyre." "Did he bring maidens?" "A number of them.
As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks. There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number. My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.
It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown altho' its height be taken." "Point of five! Three queens three knaves! Do you know that thing of Dowson's: 'I have been faithful to thee, Cynara, in my fashion'? Better than any Verlaine, except 'Les sanglots longs. What have you got?" "Only quart to the queen. Do you like the name 'Cynara'?" "Yes; don't you?" "Cynara! Cynara!
They stood by the buses making their men comfortable, and when the first buses were filled they sat in the open street on top of them, patiently waiting, as calm and smiling as circus queens on their gilt chariots. The behavior of the men in the trenches was cool enough, but they at least were fighting men and but taking the chance of war.
Then, murmur'd Arthur, 'Place me in the barge. So to the barge they came. There those three Queens Put forth their hands, and took the King, and wept." Then slowly from the shore the barge moved. And Sir Bedivere, as he saw his master go, was filled with grief and loneliness, for he only of all the brave King's knights was left. And so he cried in mourning:
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