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The principle of self-determination, or what was facetiously termed the Balkanization of Europe, was at first applied to that territory and a semi-independent state created in petto which was to contain eight million inhabitants and be linked with Poland. Certain obstacles were soon afterward encountered which had not been foreseen.
For if I attempt, and fail, these shall be ready to throw in, to make her have patience with me till I can try again. I have more contrivances still in embryo. I could tell thee of an hundred, and yet hold another hundred in petto, to pop in as I go along, to excite thy surprize, and to keep up thy attention.
The whole was disposed in concentric ridges radiating from the mouth of the valley, and descending to the flat; these were moraines in petto, formed by the action of winter snow and ice upon the loose debris. A stream flowed over this debris, dividing into branches before reaching the lake-bed, where its waters were collected, and whence it meandered southward to fall into the Yangma.
From the road between Anzy to Sancerre, a glorious landscape frequently comes into view, of the noble stretches of the Loire, looking like a lake, and it was got over very pleasantly, for Dinah was happy in finding herself well understood. Love was discussed in theory, a subject allowing lovers in petto to take the measure, as it were, of each other's heart.
Like Foy, his predecessor, after upholding the command, he upheld liberty; he sat between the left and the extreme left, beloved of the people because he accepted the chances of the future, beloved of the populace because he had served the Emperor well; he was, in company with Comtes Gerard and Drouet, one of Napoleon's marshals in petto. The treaties of 1815 removed him as a personal offence.
Still, as he had done nothing as yet to imperil his title of 'courageous Cerizet, the Government proposed by way of compensation that he should manage a newspaper; nominally an Opposition newspaper, but Ministerialist in petto. So the fall of this noble nature was really due to the Government.
Well, what shall we set about? my Essay on Castrametation but I have that in petto for our afternoon cordial; or I will show you the controversy upon Ossian's Poems between Mac-Cribb and me.
After this came a climax of devout triumph passing from the subdued adoration of a happy Andante in the words "Beatissimi voi. Che offriste il petto alle nemiche lance Per amor di costei che al sol vi diede" to the joyous outburst of an exultant Allegro in "Oh viva, oh viva: Beatissimi voi Mentre nel monde si favelli o scriva." When she had ended, Klesmer said after a moment
It will be worth his while to buy me off, if I'm ready to sell myself, and my duty, and the Prefettura and why shouldn't I? What better can I do? Shall I ever have such a chance again? Twenty, thirty, forty thousand lire, more, even, at one stroke; why, it's a fortune! I could go to the Republic, to America, North or South, send for Mariuccia no, cos petto! I will continue free!
He even refrained from making an observation which he had in petto, upon the volatile character and manners of Miss Taylor, reserving it for the future; determining that when they were man and wife, Jane should have the full benefit of his opinion of her friend.
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