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Fever Dew In Sicily. King Richard gathers his host at Vézelay in France, and there the two squires meet a brilliant young Frenchman, Guy de Passy. John is puzzled by the fellow, Robert not. "It is this manner of the great world about him that astonishes and charms you," he says to John. "I think he rates us lowly . . . myself discontented and half a monk; you a staunch simpleton . . . I would say he is one of those people who may perish of their own cleverness...
Daffodils in England. At the siege of Acre, John surprises Guy in the act of loosing a carrier pigeon, and realizes that all the Frenchman's cynicism was not just words: the rascal is dealing with the enemy. Guy takes flight, and the Lady Melisande, alas, goes after him. Robert and John and King Richard all have plenty of troubles after that; Robert never does live to return home...
...Lineal Prig. The lovers of the story are François de Séryeuse, a young Frenchman of good family, and Mahaut, Countess d'Orgel, descended from the old Creole nobility of Martinique, the wife of the Count d'Orgel. When the story begins after World War I, Mahaut is scarcely more than a child and is deeply in love with her husband, a man of 30; "in return, [the count] showed her much gratitude and the warmest friendship, which he himself mistook for love...
When Eileen got back to London, said her landlady, "she had her hair dyed blonde and told us she was going to Paris to marry a Frenchman." Back to Paris she went-but her Frenchman had changed. Eileen ran away while he slept, and returned to England with a black...
...into one of the year's great controversies; it proved particularly timely, as a reminder of past German cruelties, for politicians who oppose a European army in which Germans and Frenchmen will wear the same uniform. The verdict: death for SS Sergeant Georges-René Boos (a Frenchman) and Karl Lenz (a German), sentences from five to twelve years for 18 others, including the Alsatians...