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Still by the enchanted standard towers the other; still the enchanted standard waves aloft, with its brave ensign of the solitary "Fighting Man" girded by the gems that had flashed in the crown of Odin. "Thine be the honour of lowering that haughty flag," cried William, turning to one of his favourite and most famous knights, Robert de Tessin.
As we swung back along the dusty road to Paris at a pace of fifty miles an hour and upwards, driven by a helmeted driver with an aquiline profile fit to go upon a coin, whose merits were a little flawed by a childish and dangerous ambition to run over every cat he saw upon the road, I talked to de Tessin about this big blue-coated figure of Joffre, which is not so much a figure as a great generalisation of certain hitherto rather obscured French qualities, and of the impression he had made upon me.
I could not have hoped for so complete an example," said Wyley. Captain Tessin whistled; Major Shackleton bounced on to his feet. "Then Knightley knows nothing," cried Tessin in a gust of excitement. "And never will know," cried the Major. "Except by hearsay," sharply interposed Scrope. "Gentlemen, you go too fast, Except by hearsay. That, Mr. Wyley, was the phrase, I think.
They thought I was interested in what they were doing, and they were quite prepared to treat me as an intelligent man of a different sort, and to show me as much as I could understand.... Let me confess that de Tessin had had to persuade me to go to Headquarters.
I was so moved by the common humanity of them all that in each case I broke away from the discreet interpretations of de Tessin and talked to them directly in the strange dialect which I have inadvertently made for myself out of French, a disemvowelled speech of epicene substantives and verbs of incalculable moods and temperaments, "Entente Cordiale." The talked back as if we had met in a club.
For observe, he has made no mention of his wife. He has been two years in slavery. He escapes, and he asks for no news of his wife. That is unlike any man, but most of all unlike Knightley. He has his own ends to serve, no doubt, but he knows." The argument appeared cogent to Major Shackleton. "To be sure, to be sure," he said. "I had not thought of that." Tessin looked across to Wyley.
Pollnitz rose from his knees, and, straightening himself, advanced before the king, and made one of those low, artistic bows, which he understood to perfection. "When does your majesty wish that I should enter upon my duties?" "To-day at this moment. Count Tessin, a special ambassador from Sweden, has just arrived. I wish to give him a courtly reception. You will make the necessary arrangements.
"Three trenches," said Tessin, with a shrug of the shoulders. "Yes, three. The two nearest to Tangier may be carried. But the third it is deep, twelve feet at the least, and wide, at the least eight yards. The sides are steep and slippery with the rain." "A grave, then," said Scrope carelessly; "a grave that will hold many before the evening falls. It is well they made it wide and deep enough."
Scrope made no movement, but stood with his eyes cast down on the table like a man lost in thought. It was evident to Wyley that both Shackleton and Tessin had obeyed the sporting instinct, and had left the floor clear for the two men. It was no less evident that Knightley remarked their action and did not understand it.
The giants in the preceding line are the rocks that overhang the pass which winds now to the right, now to the left, of a roaring stream. The Devil's Bridge. The four rivers, in the next stanza, are the Reus, the Rhine, the Tessin, and the Rhone. The everlasting glacier. See William Tell, act v, scene 2. This has been paraphrased by Coleridge. Ajax the Less. Ulysses. Achilles. Diomed. Cassandra.
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