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Updated: June 17, 2025
So far as aerial excursions are concerned the most brilliant exploit is undoubtedly that of Flight-Lieutenant C.H. Collet, of the Naval Wing of the British Flying Corps, who, with a fleet of five aeroplanes swept across the German frontier and, hovering over Düsseldorf, dropped three bombs with unerring effect upon the Zeppelin sheds.
I have written off to your father and mine, giving them a full account of the whole affair, and saying what a brute Collet had been on the whole voyage. They will be sure to lay the letters before the firm, and as Allen and Smith will, when they are questioned, speak out pretty straight, you may be sure the old man and his friend, the first mate, will have to look for a berth somewhere else."
The temple in which he ministered was still standing the only one in the Cevennes that had not been demolished, the Seigneur of the place intending to convert it into a hospital. Collet was at present occupied by a company of fusiliers, commanded by Captain Cabrières.
John Collet, of Newbury, Berks, which I endeavoured to translate as above. They were thus rendered into Latin by the late Dr. Samuel Johnson. Inclytus hic Hæres magni requiescit Oenii, Consessus tantum mente modoque patrem. May 25th 1787. Sir Thomas Herbert's Translation, though faithful, is not literal. But, in my opinion, neither He nor Dr.
While I confessed the fault, his gaze wandered away from me and fell upon his fingers drumming upon the table's edge. A slant of red sunshine touched the signet-ring on his little finger, which he moved up and down watching the play of light on the rim of the collet. He was not listening.
The attention of the idlers was soon drawn off from old Collet, and his refreshing draughts, towards a boat which pulled alongside, filled with musicians, who if they produced sounds not especially harmonious, took care that they should be loud enough to be heard far and wide. "Huzza for the Banjee," sung out some of the men forward.
It doesn't do one any good making complaints of a captain, but my father is such friends with Thompson that I know he will tell the other partners that he hears that Collet isn't the sort of man they care about having commanding their ships, without my name coming into it. If he does I can't help it.
"The weight is six and three-sixteenths carats," he stated. "The depth is absolutely perfect according to the diameter of the girdle. The bezel facets are mathematically correct to the minutest fraction thirty-three, including the table. The facets on the collet side are equally exact twenty-five, including the collet, or fifty-eight facets in all. As I said, the color is flawless.
"I am going ashore in an hour, Preston," he said to Dick; "if you like, you can come with me." "Thank you, sir; I should like it very much." "I wish you were coming too, Tom," he went on when the officer moved away. "That is one of the nuisances, Collet never letting us go ashore together." "It is a nuisance," the other said, heartily.
When he came and saw that it was Madame, he was terrified with affright: the Princess laughed beyond measure at it. Our Princes here have no particular costume. When they go to the Parliament they wear only a cloak, which, in my opinion, has a very vulgar appearance; and the more so, as they wear the 'collet' without a cravat.
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