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The progress of the British army in Asia has been marked by a scrupulous reference to justice, an inviolable respect for property, an abstinence from anything which could tend to wound the feelings and prejudices of the people; and the result is this that I saw, not many weeks ago, a distinguished military officer who had just returned from the center of Afghanistan, from a place called Candahar which many of you perhaps never heard of, and told me that he, accompanied by half a dozen attendants, but without any military escort, had ridden on horseback many thousand miles, through a country inhabited by wild and semibarbarous tribes who, but two years ago, were arrayed in fierce hostility against the approach of British arms, but that he had ridden through them all with as much safety as he could have ridden from Tiverton to John Great's house, his name as a British officer being a passport through them all, because the English had respected their rights, and afforded them protection, and treated them with justice.
You cannot imagine the scie that became my pastel; it is so very good every one speaks of it to my friends who come to me and say what they have heard. I am quite sorry it is not picture. Bastien says that it is art even if it were a mere fusain.
21 10-12 Et autrement ... au moins: 'I say, you surely have heard the news That depends What is it? Tartarin's departure, perhaps? Et autrement and au moins cannot be translated literally See the paragraph following in the text. 21 15 mouain: = moins misspelled to indicate a pronuntiation as two syllables instead of one. 21 16
SO ENDS CHIDE HAROLD HIS LAST PILGRIMAGE! Upon the shores of Greece he stood, and cried 'LIBERTY! and those shores, from age to age Renown'd, and Sparta's woods and rocks, replied 'Liberty! But a Spectre, at his side, Stood mocking; and its dart, uplifting high, Smote him: he sank to earth in life's fair pride: SPARTA! thy rocks then heard another cry, And old Ilissus sigh'd 'Die, generous exile, die!
He refused to believe that, although the insinuation awakened melancholy in his great soul. 2. He found nobody who seemed ugly to him. 3. Sit down near the fountain, although you are a prey to remorse. 4. We hear from Tarascon that they have not heard from you for many months. 5. What has become of you? 6. So many of our fellow-countrymen gave some that I scarcely dare to ask them for it. 7.
Thou knowest the mask of night is on my face, Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night....
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