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Updated: May 31, 2025
If we haven't the knight in armor or the roystering swashbuckler, we have the man with the axe and drill; and is it not a task for heroes to drive the level steel road through these tremendous mountains? You are smiling, Mr. Calvert. I read the papers Colonial and British, all I can come across and I know that some day England will need all her colonies.
It is bitterly hard for us who have 1870 behind us." They feel that they should no longer be treated to such bumptiousness. I trust that I am no swashbuckler, but I have the greatest sympathy with the present Emperor in his capacity as war-lord, and in his insistent stiffening of Germany's martial backbone.
Napoleon the First, whose career had the quality of a duel against the whole of Europe, disliked duelling between the officers of his army. The great military emperor was not a swashbuckler, and had little respect for tradition. Nevertheless, a story of duelling which became a legend in the army runs through the epic of imperial wars.
"The boot is on the other leg, sir," cried the man of law. "I pick my company, and I refuse to drink with a swashbuckler and a roysterer." "You shall drink with me," roared the captain, drawing his blade, "or I will teach you civil manners with the point of this!" I judged that it was time to interfere. "Captain Rudstone, you are behaving unseemly," said I. "There is no cause for a quarrel.
It was as if Trescott was poised in the contemplative sky over the running negro, and could heed this reaching voice "Docteh Trescott!" In the cabin, Mrs. Williams, supported by relays from the battalion of children, stood quaking watch until the truth of daylight came as a reinforcement and made the arrogant, strutting, swashbuckler children, and a mother who proclaimed her illimitable courage.
Valentina herself turned her whole attention to the Count, and whilst Gonzaga Gonzaga, the poet of burning fancy, the gay songster, the acknowledged wit, the mirror of courtliness was silent and tongue-tied, this ruffling, upstart swashbuckler entertained them with a sprightliness that won him every heart always excepting that of Romeo Gonzaga.
How can there be any human understanding that can persuade itself there ever was all that infinity of Amadises in the world, or all that multitude of famous knights, all those emperors of Trebizond, all those Felixmartes of Hircania, all those palfreys, and damsels-errant, and serpents, and monsters, and giants, and marvellous adventures, and enchantments of every kind, and battles, and prodigious encounters, splendid costumes, love-sick princesses, squires made counts, droll dwarfs, love letters, billings and cooings, swashbuckler women, and, in a word, all that nonsense the books of chivalry contain?
Bristol related that one day at Sherborne he took up "a midling man," chair and all, with one arm. But there was nothing of the swashbuckler about him, and his endless vitality was matched by his courtesy. True, he hustled a Pope; but he addressed the Short Parliament in such reverential terms as no Roundhead could have found.
He was content to be the violent and fantastic swashbuckler of the half-rebellious court of Louis XIII. In late life, he crystallized his past into a maxim, "Youth is a protracted intoxication; it is the fever of the soul."
Otherwise, barring a rose-wood table, the room contained nothing to boast of. "You're late," he repeated. His name was Angelo Cara. When too young to remember it, he had come to New York from Lisbon. With him had come the swashbuckler in oil.
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