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At the outposts the three sultans met him, and after the usual greetings of ceremony conducted him to a splendid tent made of crimson velvet, the fringes and ropes of which were composed of gold threads, the pins of solid silver, and the lining of the richest silver tissue, embroidered with flowers of raised work in silks of all colours, intermixed with foils and gold.
As to what the world thinks, we are past caring for that, madame." And then for a time we sat silent. I thought, with stupid iteration, of how like a jest this had sounded when the woman said it to me in the forest: a matter for coquetry, a furnishing of foils for the game. If I had realized then But no, what could I have done?
Toodles could conceive a want for such as broken pots, dog-irons, fenders, saws, toasters, stew-pans, old muskets, boxing-gloves and foils, and sundry other odds and ends too numerous to mention.
Hope was a great nut with the foils and she and the Frenchman had veritable battles, during which the little man, on his mettle and very excited, would squeal exactly like a rabbit. The big Belgian was more phlegmatic and not so easily moved. One night I espied a pair of boxing gloves and pulled them on while waiting for my turn. "Mademoiselle knows la boxe?" he asked interestedly.
If a peer will engage at foils with his inferior in station, he must expect that his inferior in station will avail himself of every advantage; otherwise it is not a fair trial of strength and skill. The same will hold in a contest of reason, or of wit. A certain king entered the lists of genius with Voltaire.
Pretty added one more by a display of grace and skill in the fencing-match with foils, that surprised even his best friends from Lakerim, and won the unanimous vote of the three judges, themselves skilful fencers. A wet blanket was thrown on the encouragement of the Kingstonians by their inferiority at weight-lifting.
'These Jesuits taught you the use of the foils? 'They allowed me the privilege of learning, sir. After meditation, Mr. Adister said: 'You don't dance? He said it speculating on the' kind of gentleman produced in Paris by the disciples of Loyola. 'Pardon me, sir, you hit on another of my accomplishments. 'These Jesuits encourage dancing?
"So be it; I have nothing to say against that promotion; on the contrary, it will give me a good laugh. But what else did you discover?" "I discovered that Brother Borromée was not a monk but a captain." "Ah! you discovered that?" "At once." "Anything else?" "I discovered that Jacques was practicing with the foils before he began with the sword." "Ah! you discovered that also. Anything else."
There were also souvenirs of his earlier student life a life which few of his friends in Warehold, except Jane Cobden, knew or cared anything about including a pair of crossed foils and two boxing-gloves; these last hung over a portrait of Macaulay.
In charge of it was the lean, grizzled, leather-skinned Sir Jules de Vac, and it was he whom Henry commanded to face him in mimic combat with the foils, for the King wished to go with hammer and tongs at someone to vent his suppressed rage.
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