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'He was drummed out of the Guards, out of the clubs, out of the country ... Now, how would you have felt, Dick, if you had been the Graf? Your life and work and happiness crossed out, and all to save a mangy princeling. "Bitter as hell," you say. Hungering for a chance to put it across the lot that had outed you?
Let me have your promise not to continue in the service of this doomed princeling, your master. Eh? What shall it be?" "No," I said, "that's desertion." "Not at all," he answered. "It is a custom of war. Come now. As a prisoner of war, give me your parole." "You said just now that I was not a prisoner of war," I answered. "Very well, then," he said. "I am a magistrate.
Inflated with Spanish vanity from the cradle, taught to regard his subjects as dependants on a despot's will, abandoned to the caprices of his own ungovernable temper, without substantial aid from the paternal piety or stoicism, he rapidly became a most intolerable princeling. His father married him, while yet a boy, to Claudia de' Medici, and virtually abdicated in his favour.
I dreamed it was an alarm. Little one little one do not cry. Have I slept? That was discourteous indeed! 'I fear! I am afraid! roared the child. 'What is it to fear? Two old men and a boy? How wilt thou ever make a soldier, Princeling? The lama had waked too, but, taking no direct notice of the child, clicked his rosary. 'What is that? said the child, stopping a yell midway.
"It seems to me the sunny day is dark." I said, "In the main all things work together, and in the end is honey." Out they came from palm-roofed house, the Admiral of the Ocean-Sea and Viceroy of what Indies he could find for Spain and Spain could take, and the Indian king or grandee or princeling. Perceiving that what he did was appreciated for what it was, Guacanagari had recovered his lameness.
In 1745 he wrote "Reflections on the Public Situation of the Kingdom, addressed to the Duke of Newcastle;" indignant, as it appears, to behold " -a pope-bred Princeling crawl ashore, And whistle cut-throats, with those swords that scraped Their barren rocks for wretched sustenance, To cut his passage to the British throne."
In a private station or as a ruling prince he might have served his fellows: as a princeling on the edge of power he was no more than the cardboard sword in a toy armoury. Suddenly he heard his name pronounced and starting up saw Maria Clementina at his side. She rode alone, and held out her hand as he approached. "I have had an accident," said she, breathing quickly.
Not even if madam and himself are at home from toadying up and down through Europe in search of a princeling. One million dollars owned by one man is like one million acres owned by one man. He will certainly make some kind of use of his acres, but the very best he can do will be as nothing compared to the use a thousand men or more can make of them. It is the same with a million of money.
Invitations from high quarters descended upon Kitty; she bore herself with an engaging carelessness, and the melancholy youth was soon spending far more pains upon her than he had yet been known to spend upon any other English beauties presented to him. Ashe and Kitty's friends laughed; the old general in charge of the Princeling took alarm.
He had to go from a country where he was the wealthiest and most important personage to another where he would be merely regarded as a minor German princeling set up as a figurehead, and where many of the gentry were wealthier than he.
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