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"What would you have said to her?" inquired Mrs. Friedland gently. "How can there be any possible doubt what I should have said to her?" said the doctor, slapping his knee. "'My dear, you love him ergo, marry him! That first and foremost. 'And as to those other trifles, what have you to do with them? Look over them look round them!
The Pyramids, Marengo, Austerlitz, Friedland, an army of victories, seemed to rise between him and the whole of the Russians.
If the pretensions of a rival would be so irksome to the Duke of Friedland, in the conduct of combined operations, in the division of the spoil they would be insupportable.
My first anxiety was as to my father, and after we had left England for abroad I was seized with misgivings lest certain passages in the talk of Doctor Friedland, who, it will perhaps be remembered, is made the spokesman in the book of certain points in the intellectual case against Catholicism, should wound or distress him.
Bernard's arrival before the walls filled them with lively joy; and there was much reason to fear that they would support the attempts of the besiegers without, by exciting a tumult within. In this perplexity, the Elector addressed the most pressing entreaties to the Emperor and the Duke of Friedland to assist him, were it only with 5,000 men.
The talk turned on Catholic learning old and new; on the assumptions and limitations of it; on the forms taken by the most recent Catholic Apologetic; and so, like a vessel descending a great river, passed out at last, steered by Friedland, among the breakers of first principles. As a rule the doctor talked in paradox and ellipse.
But he shook off this rare sombre mood, and awoke to the full consciousness that Friedland was fled. Well, better so.
But it was when the men were around the fires, watching their kettles as they commenced to boil, and the smoke went curling up into the air, that their faces were happiest, one would talk of Lutzen, another of Wagram, of Austerlitz, of Jena, of Friedland, of Spain, of Portugal, and of all the countries in the world.
Bozzy pleaded his immortal soul. Whereupon Sir John observed with warmth that anyone possessing a particle of gentlemanly spirit would sooner be damned to all eternity than give his relations so much trouble as Bozzy was giving his!" "The application is not clear," said Mrs. Friedland.
In all Europe, there was but one man equal to this, and that one had been mortally affronted. The moment had at last arrived, when more than ordinary satisfaction was to be done to the wounded pride of the Duke of Friedland.
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