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The Anglo-Irish of the Nineteenth Century. A Novel
The Anglo-Irish of the Nineteenth Century A Novel Author:John Banim Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Upon their return into Paris, the friends found that the rumours, to which Gerald had in the morning alluded, were now more generally afloat; and... more » though people did not speak openly or loudly, their countenances told their wonder and anxiety. Flood took leave of Gerald next day, to meet his father, Sir Robert, in London. He could with difficulty obtain a place in a public conveyance for Calais or Boulogne; so ardent, already, were the more sensitive English, in running from the threatened danger. Gerald, now almost alone, soon left Paris, too; but it was merely in an impulse for change of place, and in the hope of diverting his continued melancholy. As he passed the Place du Carousel for the last time, part of the expected event occurred. Vol. II. D Royal carriages dashed out of the Thuilleries, and in one of them he caught a glance of the features of Louis, relaxed and livid with agitation. His eyes fell upon the two sentinels at either side of the great archway. He had always thought that there was some bad arrangement in mounting together, upon all the posts of Royal guard, a red and a blue jacket: it seemed to augur doubt as well as gratitude, on the part of the restored race; and neither of the sentinels could recollect much, Gerald thought, to make him friendly with his comrade. Now, as, after their " present arms," he observed the Swiss and the Frenchman, he believed that the one looked dubious and alarmed, and the other excited and threatening. Continuing his route, Gerald, to hold himself in readiness for an expected result, proceeded southward, along the Coast, and arrived at Brest. But few days elapsed till it was known that the Eagle of Elba had, indeed, winged his unobstructed way back again to his metropolitan eyrie, and once more perche...« less