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The Austrian-born monarch seemed to delight in surrounding the nobles of his court with the most magnificent luxury and display that wealth could procure, as if he would fain show his Italian subjects his own national taste. "The duke spares no expense in his entertainments," said the English consul to a friend, by whom he was standing.
Born feudists became snipers, counter jumpers became fencibles, yokels became drillmasters, sweat-shop hands became sharpshooters, aliens became Americans, an ex-janitor Austrian-born became a captain, a rabble became an organised unit; the division became a tempered mettlesome lance springy, sharp and dependable.
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