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Now, Captain Fyffe" she did her hardest to be business-like and commonplace in manner through all this interview, and my honor and esteem rose higher every moment "now, Captain Fyffe, I want to ask you if in your judgment there is anything which can be done. I come to you I tell you frankly because you have already done my family one incalculable service.
"Say what you have to say," his mistress commanded. "I presume you have an answer from Miss Pleyel?" The man who was a young and by no means ill-looking fellow, was evidently in considerable distress. "It is not my fault, Madame la Baronne," he said, with an appealing glance at me, "but Miss Pleyel's message is that she declines to meet Captain Fyffe under any circumstances."
Ii-vi; C. A. Fyffe, A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 , ch. i-iv; H. T. Dyer, A History of Modern Europe from the Fall of Constantinople, 3d ed. rev. by Arthur Hassall , ch. lii-lxi; Charles Seignobos, History of Contemporary Civilization, Eng. trans. by J. A. James , pp. 92-149.
"We shall have a crowd to meet us," he prophesied. "There are thousands of Italian refugees in London at this minute, and they will all be there to cheer the illustrious Fyffe, and the no less illustrious Brunow.
To-day the once wide dominions of the Sultan in Europe are reduced to the city of Constantinople and a strip of mountainous country stretching westward to the Adriatic. General Reading. In addition to the works of Andrews and Fyffe referred to in the footnotes, the following are excellent short accounts of the political history of Europe since 1815.
"Tell me, my dear Fyffe," he said, shaking me gently, "am I utterly mistaken? I had thought I had hoped " "What had you thought, sir?" I asked, without turning my face towards him. "I had thought," he began with hesitation, and then paused "I had thought that you would have put that question to me, rather than Brunow. Was I wrong?"
He glanced swiftly and warily about him, and, seeing nobody within ear-shot, answered in an easy tone: "I have come to assist in your enterprise, Fyffe, and I mean to see you through it." "I think," I told him, "that I prefer to go through my enterprise alone." "My dear fellow," said Brunow, "I couldn't dream of allowing you to run any risk alone in such a cause.
"You shall have my thanks, Captain Fyffe," she said, "all my life long, whether you disclaim them or not. And you too, Mr. Brunow. I suppose we all go to town together?" The count had risen from his seat while she spoke, and stood before us with one hand stretched out to Brunow and the other to myself. "I am poor in words," he said, with a shaking voice; "I am poor in everything.
I went back to my rooms, and there I wrote this note: "Dear Lady Rollinson, When I called at your house yesterday I was told that you and Violet were not at home. When I called again this morning, I was told that you were 'not at home to Captain Fyffe. This troubles and worries me so much that I hope you will not think me impertinent if I ask the reason for it."
"This is the Conte di Rossano?" I asked, leaning towards him. "The same, sir," he answered, in a voice which I shall never forget. "I know from my faithful friend here, to whom I am indebted, but I cannot distinguish my friends as yet." "This is the Honorable George Brunow, sir," I said, "and I am Captain Fyffe, at your service." "Mr.
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