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This is illustrated in the eternal dispute among M. Jourdain's masters, when the fencing-master says: "And from this we know what great consideration is due to us in a State; and how the science of Fencing is far above all useless sciences, such as dancing and music." The first lectures on Aesthetics and Musical History were not given in France until after the war of 1870.
As Wilhelm laid his hand on his arm, saying kindly: "I will try," the fencing-master called: "Your council is lasting too long for me. I'll come another time." "No, Meister, come up a minute, This gentleman is here on account of a poor sick girl.
But the rally died away again, neither of the players had got through the other's guard; and now they fell to it more slowly, the Colonel, a little winded, giving ground, and Lemoine pressing him. Then, no one saw precisely how it happened, whiff-whaff, Lemoine's weapon flew from his hand and struck the wall with a whirr and a jangle. The fencing-master wrung his wrist.
"Where have you studied?" quoth the fencing-master abruptly. "Studied?" Andre-Louis was taken aback by the question. "Oh, at Louis Le Grand." M. des Amis frowned, looking up sharply as if to see whether his applicant was taking the liberty of amusing himself. "In Heaven's name! I am not asking you where you did your humanities, but in what academy you studied fencing." "Oh fencing!"
At last a plan came into his head, and he said to his sons, "Go into the world, and try each of you to learn a trade, and, when you all come back, he who makes the best masterpiece shall have the house." The sons were well content with this, and the eldest determined to be a blacksmith, the second a barber, and the third a fencing-master.
To supply the people with gladiators, schools were, established in various parts of Italy, each under the controul of a lanis'ta, or fencing-master, who instructed them in martial exercises.
"Roland, my fore man, exactly as it is among human beings," cried the fencing-master, clapping his hands. "What do you mean by your Roland, Herr Allerts? You promised me a short time ago but who is coming up the ladder?" "I hear your mother." "She is bringing me a visitor. I know that voice and yet. Wait. It's old Fraulein Van Hoogstraten's steward." "From Nobelstrasse?
Guy went every morning to the salle d'armes, for his wound being on his left shoulder he was able to use his sword arm as soon as it began to heal. "You underrated your skill," the fencing-master said when he had given him his first lesson. "It is true that you do not know the niceties of sword- playing, but indeed you are so quick of eye and wrist that you can afford to do without them.
"His drawing-master, his fencing-master, his dancing-master, all his professors of languages, who delighted me by their testimony to his accomplishments and their praises of his quickness and assiduity, were active confederates in bringing about events which might have occasioned an European war.
We learned to wield the sword too in Jena, and I would gladly have crossed blades with the sturdy fencing-master Allertssohn, of whom you have just told me. Leonhard was older than I, and when he graduated with honor, I was still very weak in the pandects. But we were always one in heart and soul, so I went to Holland with him to attend his wedding. Ah, those were days!
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