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Emery, dear friend, wish me joy and happiness. On Tuesday I wed Mademoiselle Crystal de Cambray to-night we sign our marriage contract! Wish me joy, I say! she's a bride well worth the winning! Napoleon sets forth to conquer a throne I to conquer love. And you, old sober-face, do not look so glum!" he added, turning to Clyffurde.
Baroness Emmuska Orczy - The Bronze Eagle: A Story of the Hundred Days

"Ah, sober-face! and have you at last mustered courage to break away from the commander of this most notable company?" he cried mockingly. "'T is passing strange he does not chain you to his saddle! By Saint Guise! 'twould indeed be the only way in which so dull a cavalier would ever hold me loyal to his whims. Friend Wayland, I scarce thought you would ever thus honor me again; and yet, 't is true, I have had an ambition within my heart ever since we first met. 'T is to cause you to fling aside those rough habiliments of the wilderness, and attire yourself in garments more becoming civilized man. Would that I might induce you, even now, to permit Sam to rearrange those heavy blond locks
Randall Parrish - When Wilderness Was King: A Tale of the Illinois Country
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