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Am I not able to realise a Briton's ambition without being beholden to a Phenomenon in spangles? Sir, I took the York! Alone I did it!" "And," said Losely, feeling a sort of dreary satisfaction in listening to the grotesque sorrows of one whose condition seemed to him yet more abject than his own "And the York Theatre alone perhaps did you."
This is much worse with persons of our nation than with our foreign friends, owing to that fine contempt for composition, grammar, and punctuation which marks the well-bred Briton, and especially the well-bred Briton's wife and daughter.
May the Gallic cock be always clipped by British valour if he crows too loud. May the sword of justice be swayed by the hand of mercy. May the seeds of dissension never find growth in the soil of Great Britain. May the love of country be imprinted in every Briton's breast. May our statesmen ever possess the justice of a More and the wisdom of a Bacon. Queen and Country. Liberty, not licence.
His burning face is like a red star, guiding their destructive course; his voice, as the horn that kindles the young pack in the chase of blood. A British grenadier, of giant size, rushes on him with a fixed bayonet. De Kalb parries the furious blow, and plunges his sword in the Briton's breast; then, seizing his falling arms, he deals death around him on the crowding foe.
The post-boy's smile, or so much as could be seen of it by the edge of the lamp, grew more knowing. "I ask no questions, sir." "But but who ordered you?" The post-boy did not observe, or disregarded, his bewilderment. "A Briton's a Briton, sir, I hope? I ask no questions, knowing my place. . . . But if so be as you were to tell me there's been a great victory " He paused on this.
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