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The Administration lost some of its staunchest supporters the moment its later organ, the Sentinel, began advocating the general regulation of prices.
I exclaimed, absolutely bewildered. Eve, who was standing by my side, clasped her hands round my arm. "It seems to me," she murmured sweetly, "as if dad were trying his reaping machine against some one else's." I looked at her demure little smile and I looked at the field in which I recognized very many of my staunchest opponents. Then I looked at the marquee.
The gains in the various campaigns were not sufficient, they argued, to warrant the expense of resubmission in the near future. This reason was freely and courageously given from the Chair of the Senate by one of the staunchest friends suffrage ever had in the State, the Hon.
And it was Jean, too, who, become a widower and having enlisted again at the first rumor of war, brought the inexhaustible reserve, the stock of eternal rejuvenation which the earth keeps; Jean, the humblest, the staunchest soldier at the final downfall, swept along in the terrible and fatal storm which, from the frontier to Sedan, in sweeping away the Empire, threatened to sweep away the country; always wise, circumspect, firm in his hope, loving with fraternal affection his comrade Maurice, the demented child of the people, the holocaust doomed to expiation, weeping tears of blood when inexorable destiny chose himself to hew off this rotten limb, and after all had ended the continual defeats, the frightful civil war, the lost provinces, the thousands of millions of francs to pay taking up the march again, notwithstanding, returning to the land which awaited him, to the great and difficult task of making a new France.
But not the staunchest Huguenot of them all, not Duplessis, nor D'Aubigne, nor De la Noue with the iron arm, was more devoted on that day to crown and country than were such papist supporters of the rightful heir as had sworn to conquer the insolent foreigner on the soil of France or die.
He is the staunchest and frankest of friends. He knows of my love; we have talked from heart to heart. 'Yet it was at his intercession that the Hun allowed us to go; why, you cannot guess. What if he have power and motives which threaten Veranilda's peace? Basil exclaimed against this as the baseless fear of a woman.
Thus, even before her capture and trial, Joan of Arc met with some of her worst foes among those whose duty it was to have been her staunchest friends and helpers; and, deplorable to say, among her own countrymen. Charles left Saint Denis on the 13th of September. Before his departure, Joan of Arc performed an act which indicated that she felt her mission to be finished.
"I am Félix Broux," I told him. "You may be Félix anybody for all it avails; you cannot see Monsieur." "Then I will see Vigo." Vigo was Monsieur's Master of Horse, the staunchest man in France. This sentry was nobody, just a common fellow picked up since Monsieur left St. Quentin, but Vigo had been at his side these twenty years. "Vigo, say you! Vigo does not see street boys."
Anstey!" called Prescott, and Anstey, the sweet-tempered Virginian, one of Dick's staunchest friends in the corps of cadets, came quickly up, saluting. "Mr. Anstey, you will chase the balk carriers," directed Dick. "Please try to make up the time that has been lost. Mr.
He was the staunchest advocate of national preparedness, and we may say that the military training camps that gave America officers for the war were fathered by Roosevelt as well as by his friend and comrade in arms, General Wood, who was sponsor of "The Plattsburg Idea."
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