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Ten minutes after, the Rabbi Rose came in to have a glass put in his watch. "Who is dead?" asked Monsieur Goulden. "Poor old Standard-bearer." "What! Father Féral?" "Yes, near an hour ago.
Our barbarian ancestors brought from Schleswig-Holstein a rough, clean, strong foundation for what was to become a new type of humanity on the face of the earth. A Humanity which was not to be Persian nor Greek, nor yet Roman, but to be nourished on the best results of all, and to become the standard-bearer for the Civilization of the future.
Carleton was saying to her about wood strawberries and hautbois. "Will you allow that, Carleton?" "What, my lord?" "A rival banner to float alongside of St. George's?" "The flags are friendly, my lord." "Hum just now, they may seem so. Has your little standard-bearer anything of a rebellious disposition?" "Not against any lawful authority, I hope," said Fleda. "Then there is hope for you, Mr.
Matthias was made the exponent of the new policy, the standard-bearer of the new union which the Prince now succeeded in establishing; for his next step was immediately to impress upon the provinces which had thus united in casting down the gauntlet to a common enemy the necessity of uniting in a permanent league. One province was already lost by the fall of Namur.
There was a standard-bearer with them whose trappings were even richer and more ornate than those of the rank and file, and who bore aloft upon a slender lance a small standard of crimson silk, deeply edged with gold fringe, and beautifully emblazoned in gold thread with a device which seemed to be a hieroglyphic of some sort, of which I could make nothing.
First stalked the royal standard-bearer, carrying the royal standard, knotted and bound to its staff with white ribbon; then came the royal bier, which consisted of a platform borne by twelve men attired wholly in white the mourning colour and draped with white silk, heavily fringed with gold bullion, which swept the ground.
For no true statesman could be so ingenuous as thus to throw all the cards on the table for the Spanish and Imperial cabinet to shuffle them at pleasure for a new deal. The Duke of Neuburg, now Catholic and especially protected by Spain, had become, instead of a pretender with more or less law on his side, a mere standard-bearer and agent of the Great Catholic League in the debateable land.
"You will help me place this child upon his throne," he commanded, and the room rang with cheers. "You will appeal to his people," he cried. "Do you not think they will rise to this standard-bearer, will they not rally to his call?
The handsome standard-bearer yonder was called Ulrich! He must be her son! Alas, and she could only cast stolen glances at him, listen by stealth to the German words that fell from the beloved lips.
It was his destiny, poor devil! Next it would be someone else, themselves, perhaps. They were approaching the edge of the wood when a cry of distress was heard behind them. "Help! help!" It was the subaltern standard-bearer, who had been shot through the left lung.
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