Excerpt from Carlino: And Other Stories This experience of eighteen years was so unanswer ably conclusive in favour of the excellence of his method, that when it seemed to fail, as it did as soon as he adopted the life of a civilian, and could only choose his servants from among civilians, he attributed the failure rather to the wickedness of a whole class, or to his ill-luck, than to the faultiness of the principle upon which he had acted so long; and instead of changing his ways changed his servants, which was the case, ...
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Excerpt from Carlino: And Other Stories This experience of eighteen years was so unanswer ably conclusive in favour of the excellence of his method, that when it seemed to fail, as it did as soon as he adopted the life of a civilian, and could only choose his servants from among civilians, he attributed the failure rather to the wickedness of a whole class, or to his ill-luck, than to the faultiness of the principle upon which he had acted so long; and instead of changing his ways changed his servants, which was the case, on an average, every second month during the five years intervening between 1848 and 1853. It was in 1848 that he had returned to the life of a civilian. On the same day on which the second te public was proclaimed in France Baron Gaston resigned his commission, sacrificing a brilliant career, and his right to a handsome pension in a few years, to what he conceived to be his duty to his name, to his po litical creed, and to his royal master. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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