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Old Leopold had wells of strange sorrow in the rugged heart of him, sorrow, and still better things, which he does not wear on his sleeve. "Louisa, Leopold's eldest Daughter, Wife of Victor Leopold, reigning Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg, lay dying of a decline." Still only twenty-three, poor Lady, though married seven years ago; the end now evidently drawing nigh.
Emily Hart sat to Romney, the artist, and it is said that twenty-three portraits were painted, though some writers have placed the number at over forty. "Marinda," "Sibyl," and the "Spinstress" were amongst them. The pictures bring high prices; one, I think called "Sensibility," brought, in 1890, over £3,000.
In every instance when the United States were in trouble, the Tuscaroras were ever ready to sacrifice their blood upon the American altar, which they again fully evinced in the war of the rebellion, when twenty-three of the Tuscarora Indian warriors enlisted as volunteers in the United States army, some of whom died in the service of the country; but some were spared by the good Providence, and were permitted yet to share the sweets of home; some inherited diseases which they will probably carry down to their graves.
He, however, considered Forsyth's partiality and confidence in the latter as rather a fortunate occurrence. The whole of the artificers, twenty-three in number, now removed of their own accord from the tender, to lodge in the beacon, together with Peter Fortune, a person singularly adapted for a residence of this kind, both from the urbanity of his manners and the versatility of his talents.
Sergeants Ryder and Weischaar were splendid types of the American Regular non-commissioned officer, alert, respectful, attentive to duty, resolute, unflinching, determined, magnificent soldiers. Serg. Green was a young man, only twenty-three, the idolized son of his parents, in the army because he loved it; enthusiastic over his gun, and fully determined to "pot" every Spaniard in sight. Corp.
We'll join you at the Twenty-three Mile cabin to-morrow night." Pete the breed looked doubtful. "Bear over east?" he asked. "Somewhere over there," Harold replied. "Don't guess any bear meat left. Heard coyotes hundred of 'em over east. Pack of wolves came through too sang song over there." Harold could agree with him.
Creasy, in his Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World, says concerning the battle of Waterloo, "The great battle which ended the twenty-three years' war of the first French revolution, and which quelled the man whose genius and ambition had so long disturbed and desolated the world, deserves to be regarded by us ... with peculiar gratitude for the repose which it secured for us and for the greater part of the human race."
Liszt ever remained a true and admiring friend of the Pole, and wrote the poetic study sketch of him in 1849. Liszt was now twenty-three. Broadened and chastened by all he had passed through, he resumed his playing in aristocratic homes. He also appeared in public and was found to be quite a different artist from what the Parisians had previously known.
On the 15th of September following, Charles was still fifteen leagues from Metz, on the territory of Deux-Ponts, and it was only on the 19th of October that the Duke of Alba, his captain-general, arrived with twenty-four thousand men, the advance-guard, within a league of the place which, it it is said, was to be ultimately besieged by one hundred thousand foot, twenty-three thousand horse, one hundred and twenty pieces of artillery, and seven thousand pioneers.
But Doctor South broke suddenly into his thoughts. "How old are you?" "Getting on for thirty." "How is it you're only just qualified?" "I didn't go in for the medical till I was nearly twenty-three, and I had to give it up for two years in the middle." "Why?" "Poverty." Doctor South gave him an odd look and relapsed into silence. At the end of dinner he got up from the table.
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