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Updated: June 19, 2025
With an oath he was bidden to ask no questions. "If I die," he assured them, "you will be killing a good republican." A tall man with an inflamed countenance and fierce, black eyes, that were somewhat vitreous, now leered down upon him. "You babbling fool! It's not your life, it's your property we want." This was Grandmaison, the fencing-master, who once had been a gentleman.
But consider that in doing so you are blowing the trumpet of ochlocracy and anarchy, the arch-enemy of all legislative order, all civilisation, and all humanity. Phil. You are right. It was only a sophism, or what the fencing-master calls a feint. I withdraw it therefore. But see how disputing can make even honest men unjust and malicious. So let us cease. Demop.
Just as his Majesty, still galloping, was about to pass before the barrack, the brave sailor, who was on the lookout, sprang suddenly from his hiding place, and threw himself before the Emperor, holding out his petition in the attitude of a fencing-master defending himself.
Indeed, to put any play of Shakespeare's on the stage, absolutely as he himself wished it to be done, requires the services of a good property-man, a clever wig-maker, a costumier with a sense of colour and a knowledge of textures, a master of the methods of making-up, a fencing-master, a dancing- master, and an artist to direct personally the whole production.
The heroine, who wore her gown as though it were a Greek peplus, with arm uplifted, and head lowered, was nothing else but Antigone, and she smiled with a smile of eternal sacrifice, carefully modulating the lower notes of her beautiful contralto voice. The heavy father walked about like a fencing-master, with automatic gestures, a funereal dignity, romanticism in a frock-coat.
He seems to attack his plate not with the finesse of a meticulous fencing-master but like a Viking, with a broad Berserker blade. He hews, he hacks, he gashes. There is blood in his veins, and he does not spare the ink. But examine closely these little prints some of them miracles of printing and you may discern their delicate sureness, subtlety, and economy of gesture.
The baron allowed the hideous landlord to kiss his hand at parting, but Nicolas would not suffer him to touch his. Few words were exchanged between father and son during the remainder of their ride to the Hague, but the musician and the fencing-master were less silent on the way to Delft.
It proved to the world that he was a dangerous character, and it also gave him a respite from the tyranny of the fencing-master, and allowed him to turn to his first, last and only love literature. In Voltaire's cosmos was a good deal of the Bob Acres quality.
"Fear him a professional gambler, who lives one knows not how! Nonsense! It is as if one should fight a duel with a fencing-master." "What do you wish, my dear? The evil is done and it is so great " "That you have not the means to pay the sum? Oh, but wait a moment." And taking up a casket containing a superb collar of pearls, she said: "This is worth fourteen thousand francs.
The baron allowed the hideous landlord to kiss his hand at parting, but Nicolas would not suffer him to touch his. Few words were exchanged between father and son during the remainder of their ride to the Hague, but the musician and the fencing-master were less silent on the way to Delft.
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