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"And whilst my opinion remains unaltered, I must confess that since M. de Cussy has pledged us, it is for us to fulfil the pledges. The articles are confirmed, sir." Captain Blood bowed again. In vain M. de Rivarol looked searchingly for the least trace of a smile of triumph on those firm lips. The buccaneer's face remained of the utmost gravity.
"Lord, man, what is there here to fret you? Surely 't isn't the thought of Rivarol!" "No," said Blood thickly. And for once he was communicative. It may well be that he must vent the thing that oppressed him or be driven mad by it. And Pitt, after all, was his friend and loved him, and, so, a proper man for confidences. "But if she knew! If she knew! O God!
The following excerpts, attributed to the pens of Dumouriez or Rivarol, are specimens of some of the comments of the time: EXTRACTS OF LETTERS IN "LE SPECTATUER DU NORD" of 1797. General Bonaparte is, without contradiction, the most brilliant warrior who has appeared at the head of the armies of the French Republic.
Johnson as 'Virtue founded upon reverence of the unknown, and expectation of future rewards and punishments. Rivarol as 'the science of serving the unknown. La Bruyere as 'the respectful fear of the unknown. Du Marsais, as 'the worship of the unknown, and the practice of all the virtues. Walker as 'Virtue founded upon reverence of the unknown, and expectation of rewards or punishments: a system of divine faith and worship as opposed to other systems. De Bonald as 'Social intercourse between man and the unknown. Rees as 'the worship or homage that is due to the unknown as creator, preserver, and with Christians as redeemer of the world. Lord Brougham as 'the subject of the science called Theology: a science he defines as 'the knowledge and attributes of the unknown; which definitions agree in making the essential principle of religion a principle of ignorance.
Give me your hand, my nephew in affliction as in affection!" Rivarol dashed away a not discreditable tear, and resumed: "My only hope lies in this discovery of perpetual motion. It will give me the fame, the wealth. Can Jocasta refuse these? If she can, there is only the trap-door and Kerguellen's Land!" I bashfully asked to see the perpetual-motion machine. My uncle in affliction shook his head.
"I'll be after telling you. Rivarol is a fool to take this chance, considering what he's got aboard. He carried in his hold the treasure plundered from Cartagena, amounting to forty million livres." They jumped at the mention of that colossal sum. "He has gone into Port Royal with it.
"Every man is a caricature of himself when you strip him," said Müller, epigrammatically. "Look at that scarecrow just opposite. He passes for an Adonis, de par le monde." I looked and recognised the Count de Rivarol, a tall young man, an élégant of the first water, a curled darling of society, a professed lady-killer, whom I had met many a time in attendance on Madame de Marignan.
In his right hand the gentleman carried a broad black hat with a scarlet ostrich-plume, in his left hand an ebony cane. His stockings were of silk, a bunch of ribbons masked his garters, and the black rosettes on his shoes were finely edged with gold. For a moment M. de Rivarol did not recognize him. For Blood looked younger by ten years than yesterday.
The Queen, showing her son, said to him, "I was at my post." This Princess received advice and memorials from all quarters. Rivarol addressed several to her, which I read to her. They were full of ingenious observations; but the Queen did not find that they, contained anything of essential service under the circumstances in which the royal family was placed.
He had come up rubbing his hands and taking a proper satisfaction in the energy of the men whom he had enlisted. "Aha, M. de Rivarol!" he laughed. "He understands his business, eh, this Captain Blood. He'll plant the Lilies of France on that fort before breakfast." The Baron swung upon him snarling. "He understands his business, eh?
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