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I had felt rather timid and awkward, as I could not speak English; but the ladies being kindly disposed, and generally knowing a little French, we managed to get on friendly terms, particularly when left to ourselves, for I was very much afraid of Gilbert's strictures I will explain for what reasons in particular.
No wonder, for there was a narrow ledge of leading without, upon which Maurice had suddenly appeared, running with unwavering steps till in a moment he stooped down, and popped through the similar window of Gilbert's room. While still too dizzy with horror to feel secure that the child was indeed safe within, those below were startled by a frantic shout from Algernon: 'Let me out!
Gilbert's earnestness in the passage you quote from the 'Mikado, and I prefer Shakespeare's 'bare, ruined choirs. I don't know but I prefer the hard, unflattering portrait which Hamlet mockingly draws for Polonius, and there is something almost caressing in the notion of 'the lean and slippered pantaloon. The worst of it is that we old fellows look so plain to one another; I dare say young people don't find us so bad.
Miss Gilbert's Career. An American Story. By J.G. HOLLAND. New York: Charles Scribner. There is scarcely a more hazardous experiment for any novelist than "a novel with a purpose."
He was a general now, and commanded a division which had already made its mark upon that man of misfortune von der Tann, a great soldier with no luck. One frosty morning de Vasselot rode out of the little town upon the Loire at the head of a handful of his newly trained men. He was going to take up his appointment: for he held the command of the whole of the cavalry of General Gilbert's division.
Then she insisted on Mary Potter bringing out her sewing, and giving her something more to do; it was one of her working-days, she said; she had spent rather an idle winter; and moreover, she was in such spirits at Gilbert's good fortune, that she couldn't be satisfied without doing something for him, and to sew up the seams of his new breeches was the very thing!
"If you care about that list of the Twenty-seven, the real list, wait for me. I shall be back in an hour, in two hours, at most; and then we will talk business." And abruptly, to Clarisse: "And you, madame, a little courage yet. I command you to show courage, in Gilbert's name."
Kingsford, on the other hand, thinks it to be Ricardus Parisiensis, who died in 1252. A Liber de urinis has been ascribed to each of them, but, it seems to me, with greater probability to Ricardus Salernitanus. If too the author of the "Anatomia Ricardi" was a contemporary of Gilbert, we might reasonably expect to find in the Compendium some evidences of Gilbert's acquaintance with that work.
It is difficult to imagine how a realization of Mr. Gilbert's conception could be made more perfect." The World, 12th December, 1883. "The revival of 'Pygmalion and Galatea' at the Lyceum on Saturday last, with Miss Mary Anderson in the part of the animated statue, excited considerable interest and drew together a large and enthusiastic audience. Without attempting any comparison between Mrs.
Fortress after fortress was wrested from Matilda; Henry sat down before the gates of Rome at last, in the plains of Nero and opposite the fortress of St. Peter. Yet the sublime Pontiff displayed no symptom of uneasiness, though half of Europe was against him. Gilbert's first impulse was to fly to Rome, but the approaches to the city were all in possession of the enemy.
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