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Meredith was a tailor's son, born in 1828. No biographer can tell much about his early years, for he covered those years with "an impenetrable cloak of silence...
...couple whispered an explanation : they were dressed in skintight black. Guest after guest fell into deep curtsies before the marquis. One old lady in a crinoline was so moved that she had to be helped to her feet. When the last curtsy was dropped, the marquis flung his cloak off to preside in a gold union suit at the presentation of 21 "tableaux," which were watched with considerable interest, if only because of the fact that nobody was allowed to eat or drink until they were over...
...British sent Cloak & Dagger Agent Fitzroy Maclean (later chief of a mission to Tito, now a Conservative M.P.) to capture Zahedi. Maclean kidnaped him right under the nose of his own guard and shipped him off to Palestine for the rest of the war as a prisoner. In Zahedi's bedroom at the time of his arrest, Maclean itemized the following: a collection of German automatic weapons; some opium; a large supply of silk underwear; letters from German parachutist-agents operating in the hills; an illustrated register of the city's prostitutes...
...information-packed expert on Lower Slobbovian economic history has his place in such a setup, and so has the lawyer or the archaeologist who is trained to draw conclusions from incomplete and obscure evidence. The CIA has dozens more of both types than it has of spies, agents or cloak & dagger...
...take the lash of fortune as well as her caress. When the ship seemed certain to go down in a storm, and even the captain "burst into tears and ran below deck," young Byron, with as much bravery as bravado, "wrapped myself up in my Albanian capote (an immense cloak) and lay down on deck to wait the worst." On shore, his valor was heartily rewarded by the female population of Greece...