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Synopsis: Act. I--Scene 1. A street in Spain in the Carnival time. The quarrel. Scene 2. Before the house of Bellides. The lovers' rendezvous...
...violent nature, and welcomed the war of 1870 as a chance for throwing off the yoke of social restraint that he hated so much. He became associated with the Commune, which later caused his exile. During his residence in Brussels he shot a friend in a quarrel. For two years he lived in prison, spending his time in introspective meditation. This led to his becoming a Roman Catholic, and to the writing of "Sagesse" in 1880. His existence was two fold, - either spent in debauchery and sensual crimes, or in meditation upon the delights of mystic religion. He was essentially...
...intentions of the Boer government. The idea that it was the Jameson raid which impelled the Transvaal to arm is frivolous. The arming had been going on for years. A final proof of Boer premeditation is found in the fact that the Orange Free State, which had absolutely no quarrel with Britain, threw in its lot with the Transvaal...
...contributing to the Advocate. The scene of the story is Rosselea, and the characters are a Catholic priest and a family of peasants. There is less plot and characterization in "Ruth," than in either of the two previous tales; but the story is clear, vigorous and wholesome. Two lovers quarrel and separate, but are again joined at a crisis in the life of the heroine. Simple and straightforward, "Ruth" is the type of story that the undergraduate reader thoroughly enjoys. Very different from "Ruth," is J. P. Sanborn's frail story, "Conclusions." Like Cyrano de Bergerac, the writer...
Nicholson being temporarily removed to Maryland, he was succeeded in Virginia by the unpopular Andros. He quickly became involved in a quarrel with Blair, and was removed for allowing an insult to the latter to pass unpunished. Nicholson resumed the reins of government which he held till 1704, being finally recalled for unbecoming conduct to men of high station in the colony...