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"Captain Fyffe," said Miss Rossano, suddenly, in the midst of our enthusiastic talk upon this theme, "I am going to ask you a favor. I know very little of my father as yet. I have not spent twelve hours in his society, but it is easy to find out two things about it: he will be mad to join in any effort that The Cause may make, and " She paused there, with a look of semi-embarrassment. "And?"
The other seven, General McGroierty, Colonels White, Fyffe, Loudon and Marshall, Majors King and Bailey, were all residents of Georgetown when the war broke out, and all of them, who were alive at the close, returned there. Major Bailey was the cadet who had preceded me at West Point. He was killed in West Virginia, in his first engagement.
If that has grown to be an old-fashioned doctrine in these days I am sorry for the world. It is true, it has been true, and will be true again. "I have heard of you often, Captain Fyffe," said the charming voice, "and I am delighted to meet you. Your old comrade, Jack Rollinson, is a cousin of mine."
I couldn't help listening to her voice, and I heard my own name. "You know the gentleman who stood beside you?" she asked. And Brunow answering that he and I were old friends, she said, "It is Captain Fyffe, I think." "No other, Miss Rossano," said Brunow. "Bring him here and introduce me to him," she said. "I have a great desire to know Captain Fyffe."
There, if you cede so much to the authority of my years, the matter may be allowed to rest. If you have further business with Captain Fyffe, I will find another opportunity of calling upon him." "I have no further business with Captain Fyffe," said Bruno, "now nor at any time."
I , ch. xiv, xv; H. M. Stephens, Revolutionary Europe, 1789-1815 , ch. vii-xi; J. H. Rose, Revolutionary and Napoleonic Era, 1789-1815 , ch. vii-xi; J. A. R. Marriott, The Remaking of Modern Europe, 1789-1878 , ch. vii-xi; H. T. Dyer, A History of Modern Europe from the Fall of Constantinople, 3d ed. rev. by Arthur Hassall , ch. lxi-lxvii; C. A. Fyffe, A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 , ch. v-xii.
"I've got the real thing to sell, and I want a man as knows the real thing to see it before it's bought. Then you're satisfied and I'm satisfied. If I ain't mistaken now, Captain Fyffe's the man that hooked you out of that blasted Austrian dungeon." "It is to Captain Fyffe," the count answered, "that I owe my liberty." "Then you owe him a lot," retorted Mr. Quorn.
I ask your judgment on this matter on two grounds, Captain Fyffe. To begin with, it is twenty years since I knew the world, and the fashion of arms has so changed during that time that I am a judge no longer. I shall want you to decide on the quality of the weapons." I nodded assent to this, and he went on. "The second reason is much more personal to yourself.
I had risen to my feet unconsciously, and she arose to face me. "I deny it absolutely!" I answered. "The suggestion is an outrage!" For sole answer she touched a little silver gong which stood upon the table. A servant appeared in answer to the sound, and the baroness, without turning her head towards him, said, "Send my compliments to Miss Pleyel, and let her know Captain Fyffe has called."
He was less independent than Thiers, and equally ambitious of ruling, and was also more subservient to the king, supporting him in measures which finally undermined his throne; but the purity of Guizot's private life, in an age of corruption, secured for him more respect than popularity, Mr. Fyffe in his late scholarly history sneers at him as a sanctimonious old Puritan, almost a hypocrite.
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