Excerpt: ...smile. "You know-sire-that I only ask to be convinced. Where will Your Imperial Highness begin?" "Know then that the American peasant named Lincoln, who would not recognize a Hapsburg, is dead. He has been assassinated. He will no longer encourage our rebels in Mexico." "That poor gentleman whom you call a peasant," she returned with galling frankness, "was greater than any Hapsburg. He was fifty million people, and one million are still under arms. Your rebels know it. They still cry, 'Viva la Intervencion del ...
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Excerpt: ...smile. "You know-sire-that I only ask to be convinced. Where will Your Imperial Highness begin?" "Know then that the American peasant named Lincoln, who would not recognize a Hapsburg, is dead. He has been assassinated. He will no longer encourage our rebels in Mexico." "That poor gentleman whom you call a peasant," she returned with galling frankness, "was greater than any Hapsburg. He was fifty million people, and one million are still under arms. Your rebels know it. They still cry, 'Viva la Intervencion del Norte!' But go on, sire." He chafed under her mockery in the title. But sitting there, goading an imaginary shark, she was no less inciting than when he had ventured his caress. "They are of no consequence," he burst forth, "neither the Americans, nor the dissidents. Your own countrymen, mademoiselle, will, and must, assure my empire." "H'm'n," she ejaculated, with a quick shrug. "Even the 260 marshal, greatly against his will, has had to inform Your Majesty that we will shortly withdraw." "Then I shall depend on my subjects alone!" She contented herself with repeating, "Viva la Intervencion del Norte!" That too, was ample comment as to the loyalty of his subjects. The Emperor paused in his walk. "Alas," he sighed wearily, "a Hapsburg sacrifices himself to regenerate a people, and-they do not appreciate it." Jacqueline bent her head to hide a smile. She dreamily made rings in the water, and seemed to fall into his mood of poetic melancholy. "A comedietta of an empire," she mused sympathetically, "a harlequinade, nothing more. Grands dieux, I do not wonder that Your Highness finds it unworthy!" There is no such incense to a man as when he imagines himself understood by a pretty woman. Yet the temptress now found herself the harder to...
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Add this copy of The Missourian to cart. $6.00, fair condition, Sold by Top Notch Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Tolar, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1905 by A L Burt Co.
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Haskell, Ernest. Fair. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Cover deep red with fading white lettering and green cactus illustration. Cover is worn, chipped, rubbed. Front inside hinge is weak. Pages are clean with no markings in text.
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VERY GOOD. 6 X 8. COntains b&w illustrations, good binding, clean body and unmarked text. General shelf/edge wear, lightly faded spine, and small chipped spine edge. _PAB_
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Haskell, Ernest. Good. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. New York, NY, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1905. First edition. 8vo. Brick-colored cloth with white text and green cactus artwork on spine and front board (front board also has a white eagle and snake in the midst of the cactus) illustrated in black and white throughout, 519 pp. A truly wonderful read about the exciting times and the rugged people who made history back when the Americas were being settled. Reasonable amount of shelf wear for a 100+ year old book, a few small, flat tears and some fingerprints on pages, but good, readable copy and a real treasure for those interested in classic Americana.
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