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"Why, it's like a scene of the Sainte-Vehme, neither more nor less." "And on the blade of the dagger, that there might be no doubt as to who did the deed, were graven the words: 'Companions of Jehu." "Why, it isn't possible that such things can happen in France, in the last year of the eighteenth century. It might do for Germany in the Middle Ages, in the days of the Henrys and the Ottos."
Yet the sum of the Queen's policy, for the year 1587, may be summed up in one word peace; peace for the Provinces, peace for herself, with their implacable enemy. In France, during the same year of expectation, we shall see the long prologue to the tragic and memorable 1588 slowly enacting; the same triangular contest between the three Henrys and their partizans still proceeding.
When despatch-writing, invisible Philips, stargazing Rudolphs, and petticoated Henrys, sat upon the thrones of Europe, it was wholesome to show the world that there was a King left who could move about in the bustle and business of the age, and could charge as well as most soldiers at the head of his cavalry; that there was one more sovereign fit to reign over men, besides the glorious Virgin who governed England.
For instance, wouldn't it be awkward for our good friend Henry the Eighth to encounter the various Mrs. Henrys here? Would it not likewise be awkward for them to meet each other?" "Your point is well taken," said Doctor Johnson.
"When you feed lions on pound-cake you may expect to see Englishmen drink German acidulations instead of the generous juice of the grape fostered on southern soil, above volcanoes even to which they have been used since the time of the last Henrys. Beer were a better alternative. Give me claret or madeira." Mr. Bainrothe had his limits, and usually took care not to exceed them.
They had been brought to moderate bounds, by the policy of the first and second Henrys, and were not in a condition to set up for petty sovereigns by an usurpation equally detrimental to the crown and the people. They were able to act only in confederacy; and this common cause made it necessary to consult the common good, and to study popularity by the equity of their proceedings.
But the dawn of a manvantara was approaching then, and the centrifugal forces in England were slowly giving place to the centripetal: national unity was ahead, and the first two strong Williams and Henrys were able in the main to assert their kingly supremacy. But in the Irish time not manvantara, but pralaya, was coming; and this not for Ireland only, but for all Europe.
For a moment she had hoped her husband would own the chance of him being in error. But she soon saw that this would never do. A mistake on his part would be a blow to his reputation. Besides making enemies of people like the Henrys for nothing. If he had to lose them as patients, it might as well be for a good solid reason, she told herself with a dash of his own asperity.
To learn whether your native Virginia clung in the year 1787 to the inter-state traffic in human flesh, we must take our post of observation, not amongst her degenerate sons, who, in 1836, sold men, women, and children, to the amount of twenty-four millions of dollars not amongst her President Dews, who write books in favor of breeding human stock for exportation but amongst her Washingtons, and Jeffersons, and Henrys, and Masons, who, at the period when the Constitution was framed, freely expressed their abhorrence of slavery.
The mistake was repeated and repeated just as France is doing in these later months. In our village we had our Ravochals, our Henrys, our Vaillants; and in a humble way our Cesario I hope I have spelled this name wrong.
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