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I may perhaps be permitted to say that M. Caillaux has been under arrest, and that the police of Paris have declared they would not be responsible for his safety. It has, therefore, been diplomatically arranged by the government that he should be now in Brazil upon a semi-diplomatic and trade mission. The French loan just before the war was not a popular success. The reason is now obvious.
The difference was that Leighton's mots were natural and malicious, while Lewis's were only natural. On the whole, Lewis created the greater sensation. The night after Lewis had said "Almost any day now" to Vi, he found himself at a semi-diplomatic dinner next to a young person who, like himself, seemed to find the affair a bit heavy. "What did they invite you for?" asked Lewis.
He procured lettres de cachet from the King, and shut up his disobedient and debauched son in various state-prisons. But the Count generally contrived to escape, only to get into fresh difficulties; so that he became a wanderer and an exile, compelled to support himself by his pen. Mirabeau was in Berlin, in a sort of semi-diplomatic position, when the Assembly of Notables was convened.
The landlady was disappointed because her cakes were unpopular with such distinguished gentlemen. Once Storrs was going abroad on the same ship with me on a sort of semi-diplomatic mission. He was deeply read in English literature and, as far as a stranger could be, familiar with the places made famous in English and foreign classics.
Ah! if there were only a few Roundheads formed at the big-gate, how they would scatter them! About the third year of the war, Mr. Keith, now a brigadier-general, having been so badly wounded that it was supposed he could never again be fit for service in the field, was sent abroad by his government to represent it in England in a semi-confidential, semi-diplomatic position.
I can not say, except that I always loved, honored and admired courage, uprightness, integrity. For myself, his agent, I had, as I say, left the old Trist homestead at the foot of South Mountain in Maryland, to seek my fortune in our capital city. I had had some three or four years' semi-diplomatic training when I first met Calhoun and entered his service as assistant.
I accomplished the natural fate of an Englishman, and went out to the Colonies; then to India in a semi-diplomatic position; but returned home after seven or eight years, invalided, in bad health and not much better spirits, tired and disappointed with my first trial of life. I had, as people say, "no occasion" to insist on making my way.
"There has been a certain amount of talk in diplomatic, or shall we say semi-diplomatic circles, about King Konrad Karl, mere gossip, of course, but " "I never listen to gossip," said Gorman. This was untrue. Gorman listens to all the gossip he can and enjoys it thoroughly. Sir Bartholomew found it necessary to unbend a little more.
"Freddy," I said, "I want to meet the Chinese ambassador." "Eleven till one to-night here," he answered. "What the devil do you want with him?" "Do you mean that he is coming to your house to-night?" I asked. "Exactly," Freddy answered. "We've a political reception, semi-diplomatic. I saw our old friend only yesterday, and he reminded me that he was coming." "You're a brick, Freddy!" I answered.
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