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With them and with the lord of the house of Russel I watched over its cradle I marked its growth I rejoiced in its strength I witnessed its maturity I have been spared to see it ascend the very height of supreme power directing the councils of the state accelerating every great improvement uniting itself with every good work propping honorable and useful institutions extirpating abuses in all our institutions passing the bounds of our dominion, and in the new world, as in the old, proclaiming that freedom is the birthright of man that distinction of color gives no title to oppression that the chains now loosened must be struck off, and even the marks they have left effaced by the same eternal law of our nature which makes nations the masters of their own destiny, and which in Europe has caused every tyrant's throne to quake.
Austria will conclude a humiliating peace and, instead of being delivered from the French tyrant's yoke, we shall be obliged to see Austria sink into a French province, and the Emperor Francis, in spite of his high-sounding title, become nothing more than the viceroy of the Emperor Napoleon." "It must not, it shall not come to that!" exclaimed the count wildly.
Marcellinus, the tyrant's brother, advanced to support them with the select cohorts, which were considered as the hope and strength of the army. The action, which had been interrupted by the approach of night, was renewed in the morning; and, after a sharp conflict, the surviving remnant of the bravest soldiers of Maximus threw down their arms at the feet of the conqueror.
But the diabolical vengeance which he had seen in the tyrant's eye now began to undermine his hope of life. Some friends were admitted to his cell, and they informed him that they had pleaded for him, but in vain. "And do you think that he will really perpetrate this murderous deed?" he asked.
I can still perceive my brother in the background; when an application of the toe of his boot between the tails of my tyrant's coat disperses him instantaneously into total oblivion.
"Know you the city, good friar?" "That do I, my brother: every lane and street, every hole and corner of it 'twas there I first drew breath. A fair, rich city, freed by charter long ago but now, alas, its freedom snatched away, its ancient charter gone, it bleeds 'neath a pale-cheeked tyrant's sway a pallid man who laughs soft-voiced to see men die, and smiles upon their anguish.
A short time after the departure of the queens, news reached Naukratis that Oroetes, the satrap of Lydia, had, by a stratagem, allured his old enemy, Polykrates, to Sardis and crucified him there, thus fulfilling what Amasis had prophecied of the tyrant's mournful end.
"Here's the real man at last the tyrant's vein! Of course, I obey. I didn't really mean it; and I like to hear you speak like that; it's rather fine." Presently Jack said, "Now, about the Governor rather a douche, I expect? But I see you can take care of yourself; he's hugely delighted the intellectual temperature rises in every letter I get from him. But I want to make sure of one thing.
Soon, however, some coolheaded people ventured to remark that the fact of the tyrant's death was not quite so certain as might be wished. Then arose a vehement controversy about the effect of such wounds; for the vulgar notion was that no person struck by a cannon ball on the shoulder could recover.
He was the very incarnation of reaction against revolution, and he became the demigod of that horde of petty despots who infest Central Europe. Whenever, then, any tyrant's lie was to be baptized, he stood its godfather; whenever any God's truth was to be crucified, he led on those who passed by, reviling and wagging their heads.
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