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Updated: June 3, 2025
She passed the orchestra, trudging back to Saint-Lys along the gravel drive, the two fat violinists stolidly smoking their Alsacian pipes, the harp-player muttering to the aged piper, the little biniou man from the Côte-d'Or, excited, mercurial, gesticulating at every step. War! war! war!
He was left for some time in prison, quite unnoticed, perhaps forgotten: day by day fresh victims were carried to the scaffold, and yet the Alsacian tribune remained alive; at last, by the mediation of one of his friends, a long petition was presented to Robespierre, stating his services and his innocence, and demanding his freedom.
The valet, an Alsacian, who talked to me in German perhaps with the notion of paying me a compliment informed me that he was entirely at my own service. He showed me a beautiful escritoire in the work-room, with everything ready for writing purposes, and told me that, in the reading-room attached, I should find an assortment of newspapers.
One fancied a man too accustomed to the heavy foot of superiors to decline willingly any minor advantage that came his way or any major one. Bingham's eyes followed him out. "Whom have you there?" "Somebody of Belden's a new hand; some of the sediment left from the Fair." "That's where I've seen him. He was in the Service building draughtsman, clerk, or something. Swiss? Alsacian?"
Michaud picked out from among his friends and acquaintances, three other men fit to be his helpers, and able to guard the estate without fear and without reproach. The first, named Steingel, a pure-blooded Alsacian, was a natural son of the general of that name, who fell in one of Bonaparte's first victories with the army of Italy.
Fritzner, not an Alsacian as I believed, but a Prussian to a certainty, who surely struck the blow; his disappearance the day after the crime is the proof of it." "You say that you were not able to procure his address?" "But you, who have other means at your disposal, can find him.
The trousers to which this stuff belongs" he showed the button "I made for an individual whom I do not know, and who presented himself to me as an Alsacian, which I believed so much more easily, because he spoke with a strong foreign accent. These trousers I need not tell you how careful I was with them. I am a patriot, sir. He agreed to pay for them on delivery.
It was all as happy and parochial as a "Hansi" picture, and the fine old gabled houses and clean cobblestone streets made the traditional setting for an Alsacian holiday. At the Golden Eagle we laid in a store of provisions, and started out across the mountains in the direction of Thann.
The trousers to which this stuff belongs" he showed the button "I made for an individual whom I do not know, and who presented himself to me as an Alsacian, which I believed so much more easily, because he spoke with a strong foreign accent. These trousers I need not tell you how careful I was with them. I am a patriot, sir. He agreed to pay for them on delivery.
Two lieutenants, Niel and Brondeis, fell, pierced with wounds, exclaiming with their last breath, “Long live Pius IX.!” A brave Alsacian fell by their side. A Canadian Zouave, Hormisdas Sauvet, was also wounded, and declared that he was more fortunate than so many of his fellow-countrymen who had been two years in the Pontifical service without the slightest accident.
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