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Updated: June 29, 2025
But before he had finished reading, a stentorian major-domo announced that dinner was ready! The door opened, and from the dining room came the resounding strains of the polonaise: Conquest's joyful thunder waken, Triumph, valiant Russians, now!... and Count Rostov, glancing angrily at the author who went on reading his verses, bowed to Bagration.
"Come, mon ami," said Pierre, "for to-morrow we travel far." "And what for that?" said Macavoy. Pierre whispered in his ear: "To make you a king, my lovely bully." Pierre had determined to establish a kingdom, not for gain, but for conquest's sake. But because he knew that the thing would pall, he took with him Macavoy the giant, to make him king instead.
Ye are a race of other lands; your sires Profaned their soil; and ne'er the invader's yoke Was easy never in the vassal's heart Languished the hope of sweet revenge; our sway Not rooted in a people's love, but owns Allegiance from their fears; with secret joy For conquest's ruthless sword, and thraldom's chains From age to age, they wait the atoning hour Of princes' downfall; thus their bards awake The patriot strain, and thus from sire to son Rehearsed, the old traditionary tale Beguiles the winter's night.
New France was full of bold spirits who loved conquest for conquest's sake. Besides, in this case there was a force at work, generally unknown, but as powerful as the convincing influence of an army. Behind the worst and the best acts of Charles II was a woman. Behind the glories and follies of Louis XIV was also a woman.
The two next lines in that Ode are, I think, very good: "Though fann'd by conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state."
But I knew too that there was one thing that wouldn't fail. If you were innocent and I wasn't wholly sure that you were I knew there was one energy that would surely prove you so and that was Charles Conquest's desire to have me as his wife. I took the course in which there was least risk of failure and you see " A little gesture, triumphant in its suggestion, finished her sentence.
"Come, mon ami," said Pierre, "for to-morrow we travel far." "And what for that?" said Macavoy. Pierre whispered in his ear: "To make you a king, my lovely bully." Pierre had determined to establish a kingdom, not for gain, but for conquest's sake. But because he knew that the thing would pall, he took with him Macavoy the giant, to make him king instead.
He noted, too, the sure lines of her profile a profile becoming clearer cut as she grew older features wrought with delicacy and yet imbued with strength, suggestive of carved ivory. Delicacy imbued with strength was betokened, too, by the tall slenderness of her figure, whose silence and suppleness of movement came in Conquest's imagination at least from her far-off forest ancestry.
Nevertheless, it was a support to her to remember that Conquest's manner on the occasions when business brought her to his office was always a little different from that which he assumed when they met outside. He was much more the professional man with his client, a little the friend, but not at all the lover if he was a lover anywhere.
I remember there was talk about it, and in the newspapers there was even a cock-and-bull story that Wayne had connived at his escape. Well, what has that got to do with Evie?" "It has everything to do with her." Conquest's little gray-green eyes blinked as if against the blaze of their own light, while his features sharpened to their utmost incisiveness. "You don't mean to say ?" "I do."
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