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Updated: July 17, 2025
Do you know the word? It is American for a pretense that is not backed by action. I intend nothing of the kind. Either you or I must start for Semlin forthwith. If I go, I take with me a bodyguard sufficiently strong to insure my friend's freedom. I am not declaring war against Austria.
"My lords," he said, "it has just come to my ears and I thought that ye, and you in especial, my Lord Dick, in your capacity of Captain-General of the Queen's Bodyguard, ought to know that Sachar, together with the officer and the file of soldiers into whose custody ye delivered him, has disappeared." "Disappeared!" echoed Dick. "How mean ye, my Lord Lyga?" "Exactly as I have said," replied Lyga.
B.J. Du Plessis Private Secretary to himself in place of Mr. Gordon Fraser. The President also decided to have, in future, only thirty burghers as his bodyguard, and appointed Captain Niekerk as their Commandant. The Last Proclamation I now impressed upon my officers as forcibly as I could the importance of intercepting the communications of the enemy by blowing up their trains.
The Baron de Vitry, captain of the bodyguard then on duty at the Louvre, and who was peculiarly obnoxious to the Italian favourite, returned his hate so openly that he refused to salute him as he entered and quitted the palace, and publicly declared that no command, come from whence it might, should ever compel him to do so.
Therefore I name you one of our fletchers, with place about our person in our bodyguard of archers. Jack Green will show you your quarters, and instruct you in your duties, and soon you shall match your skill against his again, but next time with Frenchmen for your targets." "Sire," said Dick, very slowly, "take back your arrow, for I cannot do as you will." "Why, man?
This corps to be a sort of bodyguard to the Resident. The robbers to be admitted as privates. Troops to be brought if necessary from Cutch. Every measure to be adopted to encourage the growth of cotton. These things I shall throw into a letter, which, however, will not be sent till Clare goes out. We talked of native education.
The King and Queen were seated in the balcony of the centre window, which was draped with crimson velvet, having on their right and left several of the Princes of the Blood and ladies of the highest rank, while immediately behind them were placed the great officers of the Crown and the captains of the bodyguard.
At the sound of the tumult which followed the assassination, Selim's bodyguard, running up, found Ali erect, covered with blood, surrounded by assassins, holding in his hand the firman displayed, and crying with a menacing voice, "I have killed the traitor Selim by the order of our glorious sultan; here is his imperial command."
But when I ordered the high council of both cities to have the streets cleansed, they had the hardihood to answer me thus: 'The citizens have no time now to clean the streets, since they are busy with agricultural work. And quite recently, when I merely applied to these two capitals for their yearly quota of fifteen thousand dollars, in order to increase my bodyguard from three hundred to six hundred men during these perilous times of warfare, did you not refuse to grant this subsidy to your rightful lord?"
I readily accepted the kindly offer, partly because I knew that alone I should have gone mad; and partly also because I instinctively realised that with such a bodyguard I would have nothing to fear either from human foes or the tortures of thirst. I left everything.
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