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Leaving General Alten in possession of the ground which we had assisted in winning, we returned in search of our division, and reached them about eleven at night, lying asleep in their glory, on the field where they had fought, which contained many a bloody trace of the day's work.
The hunter's good intentions are fruitless, the young man is drowned. In the autumn of 1823, Heine wrote, while at Luneburg, his "Die Lorelei." It was first published in the Gesellschafter, March 26, 1824. Commentators refer to the verse, "Ein Märchen aus alten Zeiten," as a bit of fiction, adding that it is not a title of olden times, but one invented by Brentano about 1800.
Under these circumstances Alten decided to risk it and return without laying our mines; for once in a way I agreed with him, as it is better not to lay a minefield at all than dump one down in some unknown position which one may have to traverse oneself in the course of a month or so. We are now slowly, very slowly, struggling back to Zeebrugge.
But as they passed through Alten Damm, a strange adventure happened, whereby the all-merciful God, no doubt, wished to turn them from their evil way; but they flung His warnings to the wind. For the carl was going to be executed who belonged to the robber-band, that had committed a burglary there, in the town, some days previously.
Lord! what a truly hoggish man he is; yet I cannot help envying him his oblivion to these surroundings. Arrived in, this afternoon. Alten quite slept off his drink, and was offensively sarcastic as I worked on the forepart with wires, getting her into the shelters alongside the mole. I hastened up to Bruges, and in the Mess heard several items of news and found two letters.
After this epoch, and with the expiration of the imperial house of the Hohenstaufen, the nobles here, as in Switzerland, sought to popularize themselves, to become municipal. Der Adel steigt von seinen alten Burgen, Und schwört den Städten seinen Bürger-Eid, said the prophetic old Attinghausen, in his dying moments. The change was even more extraordinary in Florence.
Brettle in 1838 killed in fifteen days 194 fish; average, 15 pounds; largest fish, 40 pounds. Sir Charles Blois, the most successful angler, in the season of 1843 killed in the Alten 368 fish; average, 15 pounds: largest fish, 50 pounds. The Steenkjaw one rod killed in twenty days 80 salmon; average, 14 pounds. The Mandall one rod killed 35 fish in one day.
Maspero, Manual of Egyptian Archæology, Second Edition, 1895. Renouf's Hibbert Lectures. Tiele, History of the Egyptian Religion, translated by Ballingal. Wiedemann, Ägyptische Geschichte, 1884-88; "Die Religion der alten Aegyptier," 1890; also "Egyptian Religion," in Hastings' Bible Dictionary, vol. v. A. O. Lange, "Die Ägypter" in De la Saussaye. Second Series, 1888-92, vols. ii.-vi.
Alten silently watched me from the conning tower, with a sneering expression on his face. The navigator, who is quite a decent youngster, though of no family, was, I could plainly see, struck by my development, and asked to be initiated into the series of exercises. I agreed willingly enough to show them to him. I will confess I wish Zoe could have seen me as I perspired with healthy exercise.
Curiously enough, I longed for a smoke, but wild horses would not have made me ask Alten for permission. At 8 p.m. it was sufficiently dark to enable us to rise, which gave me great pleasure, though the first rush of fresh air down the hatch made me vomit after hours of breathing the vitiated muck.
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