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"I am afraid the people here think that Americans have awful manners, everybody is so polite. They said 'Bon soir' and 'Merci' and 'Voulez-vous avoir la bonte, to the waiters even! Well, there is one thing, I am going to reform. To-morrow I will be as polite as anybody. They will think that I am miraculously improved by one night on French soil; but, never mind! I am going to do it."
The arrival of Nelson in his harbour, bringing the news of the destruction of the French fleet at Aboukir, and the consequent isolation of Napoleon, gave him courage to strike a blow which the officers of his army were little likely to second.
French funeral. Lyons. The Hôtel Dieu. Avignon. Catholic church services. Marseilles. Toulon. The navy yard and the galley slaves. Disagreeable experience at an inn. The Riviera. Genoa. Morse was now thirty-eight years old, in the full vigor of manhood, of a spare but well-knit frame and of a strong constitution.
The hasty proclamation of equality between whites and blacks by the French revolutionists, and the refusal of the planters to recognize that decree as binding, led to a terrible servile revolt, which desolated the whole of the colony.
There, his troops halted, and he advanced, himself, at the head of a select corps, to reconnoitre the situation of the enemy. While he was using the utmost circumspection to obtain the necessary information without being discovered, a French soldier of his party discharged his musket, and ran into the Spanish lines. Discovery defeating every hope of success, the general retreated to Frederica.
It is expressed in a word which I use without any sense of its personality, as the French use the word Barnum for our crude young nation has the distinction of adding a verb to the French language, the verb to barnum it is expressed in the well-known name Croesus. This is a standard impossible to be reached perhaps, but a standard.
For the fact was that the little Chevalier de Blois had two pretty young daughters, with whom he had fled from his country along with thousands of French gentlemen at the period of revolution and emigration.
He had failed to see the honest enthusiasm of the masses, the ray of hope in the eyes of women and children who carried bread and water to the ragged troops of the Convention, marching through the city on their way to the front and a glorious death for the French Fatherland. The whole thing had filled the young Austrian with disgust. It was uncivilised.
The enthusiasm of the French erected over the remains a beautiful monument; and "there still may be seen, day by day, the statues of the immortal lovers, decked with flowers and coronets, perpetually renewed with invisible hands, the silent tribute of the heart of that consecrated sentiment which survives all change.
What did the French officer, whose loyalty she doubted, have to do with Tom Cameron, whose loyalty she never for a moment doubted? Ruth went on ahead of the wondering Dolge, vastly troubled. At every turn she was meeting incidents or surprising discoveries that entangled her mind more and more deeply in a web of doubt and mystery. Where was Tom? Where did the major fly to?
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