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At that time, in his eighty-eighth year, Fétis was a fugitive from Paris, owing to the troubles of the Franco-Prussian war. Mr. Mickley's picture of the veteran littérateur and critic is an engaging one. He says, "Considering his great age, Mr. Fetis is very active. He climbed up the stepladder to get books and to show me such as he considered the most rare and interesting.
He died on the 10th of August, 1883, in his eighty-eighth year. The funeral took place a few days later at Norwood Cemetery, when, surrounded by such relatives as were in England, Sir Bartle Frere, Mr.
Presently, up came two stragglers, a corporal of the Eighty-eighth and a sergeant of 'Ours. 'Hi, Corporal, yells Crichton, 'ten pounds if you can get me over the breastwork quick's the word! 'Sergeant, says I, 'twenty pounds if you get me over first. Well, down went the Corporal's musket and the Sergeant's pike, and on to their backs we scrambled a deuced painful business for both of us, I give you my word, Beverley.
"It's the major, sir, the Lord be good to him!" said a hardy-looking Eighty-eighth man, wiping his eye with the cuff of his coat as he spoke. "Not your major? Not Major O'Shaughnessy?" said I, jumping up and rushing forward towards the litter. Alas, too true, it was the gallant fellow himself! There he lay, pale and cold; his bloodless cheek and parted lips looking like death itself.
What law of body was violated in the preliminary treatment intended to prepare Nature for the ordeal and to enable her to rally from it? This fresh tragedy in one human life has become known to me while I write. A man, a giant, in his eighty-eighth year, lost his appetite, and was put to death by the following means: A pint of whiskey and from one to two quarts of milk daily to keep him nourished.
Given under my hand at the City of Washington, the eighth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States of America, the eighty-eighth. By the President: Abraham Lincoln. William H. Seward, Secretary of State.
Within the year I called upon a friend whom, on account of living in a different portion of the country, I hadn't seen for nearly ten years. Conversation revealed to me the fact that he was then in his eighty-eighth year. I could notice scarcely a change in his appearance, walk, voice, and spirit. We talked at length upon the various, so-called, periods of life.
I dissembled my annoyance and took the lute and sang again, taking pains with what I sang and rising thereto altogether, in consideration of his saying, "We will requite thee." And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say. When it was the Six Hundred and Eighty-eighth Night,
In Irving's day it was a stretch of countryside with summer houses of the wealthy at long distances facing the river. Now, though the city has encompassed it, there is still left the one green spot by the riverside beyond Eighty-eighth Street.
"What can it mean?" "I can tell you, sir," said I, proudly, while I felt my heart throb as though it would bound from my bosom. "And what is it, boy? Speak!" "There it goes again! That was an Irish shout! The Eighty-eighth are at them!" "By Jove, here they come!" said Hampden. "God help the Frenchmen now!"
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