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Updated: June 4, 2025
Then I seemed to stand in darkness, while past me, gloriously shining, went Leof, and then the old steward and one of those two men who had whispered together, and then Humbert the Bishop himself. But it seemed to me that he paused and looked on me, saying, in a voice that was like music: "Hereafter not now. Twice have you offered your life today, and yet there is work for you.
Then, too, these horsemen struck away from the road one by one, and at last I rode on alone. Now my one thought was for those at Hoxne, and to urge them to instant flight, and I thought that even now Humbert the Bishop would be in the little church, waiting for the bride to come.
One could easily imagine him a crusader in plumed helmet and breastplate, supporting any privation or fatigue without a murmur. I saw him often afterward, as he represented his brother, King Humbert, on various official occasions when I too was present the coronation of the Emperor Alexander of Russia, the Jubilee of Queen Victoria.
But many modern adventuresses have been able to bamboozle the mighty. Madame Humbert of Paris, in whose imagination were "The Humbert Millions," used to entertain Ministers of State, aristocrats, financiers, and others of lower degree, and show them the sealed-up safe in which she declared reposed millions' worth of negotiable securities which might not see the light of day until a certain date.
Humbert, recently claimed that she had her "millions" from this Regnier. A sharp criticism on Bazaine's conduct at Metz is given in a pamphlet, Réponse au Rapport sommaire sur les Opérations de l'Armée du Rhin, by one of his Staff Officers. This capitulation, the greatest recorded in the history of civilised nations, dealt a death-blow to the hopes of France.
Lady Humbert had got her own way she generally did when her mind was set upon a thing and a large and merry party was assembled beneath the hospitable roof of the Cross Way House to spend the festive Yuletide there together.
As the most Holy Sacrament was borne to the monarch’s deathbed, Prince Humbert, Princess Margaret, and, together with them, ten ministers and dignitaries of the Court, bearing lighted torches, accompanied the priest: and as Victor Emmanuel received the Viaticum and Extreme Unction, they all fell upon their knees.
The military operations in this brief campaign were discreditable, in the last degree, to the energy, to the vigilance, and to the steadiness of the Orange army. Humbert had been a leader against the royalists of La Vendee, as well as on the Rhine; consequently he was an ambidextrous enemy fitted equally for partisan warfare, and for the tactics of regular armies.
"Just consider that gigantic and secret democratic association which had Prince Napoleon for its grand master under the Empire; which has the Crown Prince for its grand master in Germany, the Czar's brother in Russia, and to which the Prince of Wales and King Humbert, and nearly all the crowned heads of the globe belong."
"And beside, what is there to fear?" Lady Humbert had said, in her decisive and cheery fashion. "We are quiet and peaceable folks, and have naught to dread either at home or abroad. I shall strive to be but three nights absent; and our merry Kate will uphold thy spirits, sister, till my return. Thou wilt be better by the fireside than journeying in the saddle this tempestuous weather."
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