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Let me tell you, moreover " this was said with the advising air of a superior in rank "that it will neither be wise not prudent in you, having been received into a British regiment, to become the Don Quixotte of your countrymen." "RECEIVED into a British regiment, sir! do you then imagine that I, more than yourself, should feel this to be a distinction," haughtily returned the indignant youth.
After Quixotte had concluded his harangues, William chose a "Man of Feeling" for his companion, who wrought upon his passions in a way which pleased him vastly. William now began to put a higher value upon his prisoners, and to use them much more politely. Almost daily he held a little chit-chat with one prisoner or another. Mr.
Whether such a conclusion, when arrived at, would be correct or not, will be discovered in a succeeding chapter. "For now sits Expectation in the air." Shakspeare. "A man, to be the governor of an island, should know something of grammar. 'Grammar? replied Sancho, 'who the d l is he?" Don Quixotte.
As this aspiring personage had neither home nor hut, he invited the strangers to swing their hammocks near his own between two trees, but, as ill-luck would have it, a thunder storm came on, which wetted them to the skin; but their troubles did not end here, for Donna Isabella's cat had perched on one of the trees, and frightened by the thunderstorm, jumped down upon one of the travellers in his cot; he naturally supposed that he was attacked by a wild beast, and as smart a battle took place between the two, as that celebrated feline engagement of Don Quixotte; the cat, who, perhaps had most reason to consider himself an ill-used personage, at length bolted, but the fears of the gentleman had been excited to such degree, that he could hardly be quieted.
At the same moment Camille Desmoulins was thus satirically apostrophising La Fayette, the first idol of the Revolution: "Liberator of two worlds, flower of Janissaries, phoenix of Alguazils-major, Don Quixotte of Capet and the two chambers, constellation of the white horse , my voice is too weak to raise itself above the clamour of your thirty thousand spies, and as many more your satellites, above the noise of your four hundred drums, and your cannons loaded with grape.
Is there any one among us so much a Quixotte as to suppose that this State could long maintain her independence if she stood alone, or was only connected with the Southern States? I scarcely believe there is.
What's this 'Don Quixotte! 'Life of Howard. 'Nov. 17. 3 Fairy Queen. 'Nov. 29. 4 Fairy Queen. 'Dec. 8. 1 Goldsmith's England. Well if this list of books is a fair exhibit of your taste and capacity, you have a most happily proportioned set of intellectuals.
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