Imagine an Imperial Highness, decidedly attractive, eighteen, and no tigress by any means, wheeling at the side of a mere lieutenant who has nothing but his pay to bless himself with and nothing but good looks to recommend him.
I persuaded Henry's colonel that the lieutenant would never be a courtier unless he saw more of court life and was relieved, to a certain extent, of duties on the drill ground.
I think if she accepted Lieutenant Eaton, and he married her, and took her away from this place, it would be the best thing that could happen.
Julia was walking swiftly away, and Lieutenant Eaton, who was coming back from a morning parade of the company, increased his pace on seeing Julia, but she turned aside and walked towards Bayle.
At that moment Lieutenant Eaton approached, and Bayle saw the tell-tale colour come into Julia's cheeks.
I am not at liberty, Lieutenant Eaton, to explain to a stranger Mrs Hallam's private affairs.
Then his thoughts of the mother passed, and he recalled all that he had seen during the past months, above all, Julia's excited manner that day, and the conduct of Lieutenant Eaton.
No," said theLieutenant firmly; "I mean to marry her.
In the rear were Captain Otway and Lieutenant Eaton, both of whom saluted, Mrs Hallam acknowledging each bow with the dignity of a queen.
They appointed, in Lord Carnarvon, a Lord-Lieutenant who was known to be in sympathy with Home Rule, and he actually entered into informal negotiations with Parnell.
Catholics were expressly excluded from the places of Lord Chancellor and Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland.
But there was no question who had directed its policy in the last few years, and Lord Hartington, in 1880, was obviously no more than the lieutenant of his principal follower.
The Humorous Lieutenant himself could not stand it; nay, I am told that even Almanzor looked like a Mouse, and trembled at the Voice of this terrifying Instrument.
In November, 1708, he became Lord-lieutenant of Ireland, with Addison for secretary.
Their leader is Lieutenant Bischoffsheim, living in Tucker Street, Cromer, in the guise of a baker.
A month ago there arrived in England a man named Karl Straus, a lieutenant of the Military Ballooning Department of the German Army stationed at Duesseldorf.
During his absences from London he could have had no trustier lieutenant than Mr. W.
I should be glad to go too, sir," the first lieutenant said.
So you have been disobeying orders, Lieutenant Glover," he said gravely.
Lieutenant Boldero shouted to the marines, and a dropping fire of musketry was at once opened.
The twenty marines who came ashore with Lieutenant Boldero will remain as part of the garrison.
I congratulate you on your success," he went on, as the first lieutenant joined him; "there is no doubt that this has been a regular rendezvous for the scoundrels.
I shall therefore appoint him as first lieutenant of the Spartane; Mr. Plumber, second lieutenant of the Tiger, will go second.
I have heard all about it, madame, and consider that Lieutenant Glover managed the whole business with great discretion as well as bravery.
The next day Nat received an order from the admiral to hand over the command of the Agile to Lieutenant Turnbull.
He rowed to the schooner, while the gig made straight for the landing-place where the lieutenant was standing.
He had had a full account from Myra of the adventures through which the little party had gone, and he retailed this to the lieutenant and doctor in the ward-room.
As soon, however, as the lieutenant motioned them to return to their huts they did so at once.
It was one of them unquestionably, for a corporal of the Berkshire regiment told me Lieutenant Young placed the mine there yesterday.
While Gilroy was speaking, Lieutenant Young himself came along, engaged in earnest conversation with Captain Lacey, and stood still close beside Miles.
On this particular evening the lieutenant went out as usual on his dangerous mission just after six o'clock.
The troopers made a lane to the door, the lieutenant bowed, the girl vanished.
An old captain in the infantry turned to his first lieutenant and made a remark which was a compound of bitter disparagement of cavalry in general and soldiery admiration of this particular troop.
A lieutenant of the battery rode down and passed them, holding his right arm carefully in his left hand.
She started to arise, and the lieutenant reached down and hoisted rather awkwardly at her arm.
The wise young captain of the second company hazarded to the lieutenant colonel that the enemy's infantry would probably soon attack the hill, and the lieutenant colonel snubbed him.
It looks as if it might rain this afternoon," remarked the lieutenant of artillery.
The lieutenant said to the first sergeant: "Williams, did they ever meet before?
He chose the nearest eight men for his "storming party," as the lieutenant called it.
A lieutenant of artillery floundered his horse straight down the hill with as great concern as if it were level ground.
The sharp lieutenant who had been so particular about the feed box knelt by the side of the girl and laid his head against the chest of the prostrate soldier.
They had lost distance and made a little gap, but at the shouts of the lieutenant they urged their horses forward.
Huxley To all these factors in Darwin's favour we must add his good fortune in possessing so able a lieutenant as Huxley.
Right across it goes the Lieutenant to look for records; when, at two in the afternoon, Robert Hoile sees something black up the bay.
Captain McClure and his lieutenant Haswell are "taking their exercise," the chief business of those winters, and at last see him!
SIR,--You will receive from Lieutenant Neale the person of Philip Nolan, late a Lieutenant in the United States Army.
Lieutenant Pim started with a sledge and seven men, and a dog-sledge with two under Dr.
Through the glass the Lieutenant makes it out to be a ship.
As the journey of Lieutenant Pim to the "Investigator" at Banks Land was that on which turned the great victory of her voyage, we will let that stand as a specimen of all.
Mr. Marshal, make my respects to Lieutenant Mitchell at Orleans, and request him to order that no one shall mention the United States to the prisoner while he is on board ship.
Lieutenant Pim had been appointed in the autumn to the "Banks Land search," and had carried out his depots of provisions when the other officers took theirs.
Just before dark, the German lieutenant stood up once more, with his white flag, and the English officer went to meet him.
The officer in charge was an overbearing First Lieutenant who was overworked, tired and irritable.
We protect our guns in that way," explained the youngLieutenant who accompanied them.
The lieutenant introduced Zaidos and Velo to the doctors, and explained their presence.
At supper time his new friend, Lieutenant Cunningham, called him.
One sometimes saw a brand-new second-lieutenant made happier than a king by this same touch of skill from an old soldier in his company, whom he knew to be far his superior in all matters of service.
The pounding feet of many fighting men had beaten the mound flat, but a small wooden cross still stood in the soil, and on it in French were penciled the words: "Here liesLieutenant Verner, killed in the charge of battle.
A tall young lieutenant was in charge of the handful who remained; and, by the same token, as was to transpire, he was also in charge of us.
Using German, the lieutenant said: "I'm being kept pretty busy.
Just as the woman brought in the soup Mittendorfer appeared, escorting a French lieutenant who was taken prisoner this morning.
I might have told the young Bavarian lieutenant of other places where I had been--places where the dead lay for days unburied.
Her only son, a lieutenant of artillery, was killed at the taking of Liege.
So, with that, Lieutenant Mittendorfer blew out his big chest and barked an order into the night, and away we all swung off at a double quick, with our feet slipping and sliding upon the travel-worn granite boulders underfoot.
A sergeant gently edged Stevens back out of the danger belt, and, from behind the officer's back another man, so Stevens said, tapped himself gently upon the forehead to indicate that the Herr Lieutenant was cracked in the brain.
Before doing so, however, he detailed the competent Captain von Theobald and the efficient Lieutenant Giebel to serve for the day as our guides while we studied briefly the workings of the German war machine in the actual theater of war.
At the end of half an hour the lieutenant bustled in, all apologies, to say there had been a mistake and that we should never have been put in with the prisoners at all.
At night, so the lieutenant said, those men who were off duty rummaged the costumes out of the dressing rooms, put them on, and gave mock plays, with music.
A genial and captivating gentleman was Lieutenant Brinkner und Meiningen, and I enjoyed my meeting with him; and often since that day in my thoughts I have wished him well.
A gay young officer was Lieutenant Geibel, and he just naturally would have his little joke whether or no.
His men must have thought well of the lieutenant to take the time, in the midst of the defense, to bury him in the place where he fell, for there were no other graves to be seen within the fort.
He was alférez in Nueva España of a company which was raised in Zacatecas; and in that position he came to this city, where he was appointed lieutenant of the said Fort Santiago.
I have busied him in the post of chief commandant of Pintados, and as my lieutenant in military matters of that province.
He was lieutenant of the cavalry captain, Don Fernando Giron, his brother, in Lengua-doc [i.
In this battle of the waters two old Naval Academy comrades fought on opposite sides, Lieutenant Green and Lieutenant Butt, both well-known names.
He was made First Lieutenantof the Alfred, and over this ship hoisted the first emblem shown on an American naval vessel.
Lieutenant Thacher, of the Sixth, with a squad of soldiers, left the regiment and escorted Captain Driver to his home, a few blocks distant.
For with the banquet and the sending off of his troops he would be well occupied, and he had made the Lady Margaret promise to be a zealous lieutenant and see that that lord was never unoccupied till he rode on that raid.
So when the major had finished, the captain began, and each lieutenant was watching his chance.
We used to smile at the grand air they had, from the stately gray-haired major down to the youngest lieutenant fresh from the Point.
At nine o'clock we had the great pleasure of receiving Lieutenant Pennell, the commander of the Terra Nova, Lieutenant Campbell, and the surgeon of the expedition, as the first guests in our new home.
A long procession of cases of provisions made its way unceasingly from the basement of the Historical Museum down into the roomy hold of the Fram, where Lieutenant Nilsen and the three Nordlanders were ready to receive them.
The American naval officer, Lieutenant Charles Wilkes, sailed in August, 1838, with a fleet of six vessels.
Business of one kind and another compelled me to go to Christiania, leaving the Fram in charge of Lieutenant Nilsen.
Lieutenant Gjertsen, who had a pronounced aptitude both for drawing teeth and amputating legs, went through a "lightning course" at the hospital and the dental hospital.
Lieutenant Nilsen carried a big rolled-up chart; I could see that this chart was the object of many interrogative glances.
Lieutenant Emile Danco, another Belgian, was the physicist of the expedition.
As regards Lieutenant Shirase in the Kainan Maru, I understood it to be his plan to devote his whole attention to King Edward VII.
Gunnar Andersson, Lieutenant Duse, and their companion during the winter, a Norwegian sailor named Grunden.
Lieutenant Prestrud and I made a trip to the south to find a suitable place for ascending the Barrier on the other side of the bay.
The second in command was Lieutenant Armitage, who had taken part in the Jackson-Harmsworth North Polar expedition.
Lieutenant Prestrud studied the use of the pendulum apparatus under Professor Schiotz and the use of the astronomical theodolite under Professor Geelmuyden.
Lieutenant Grant, afterwards General Grant and President of the United States, was one of the first to enter the fortified position at the taking of Chapultepec.
The door being thrown open, the pseudo woman who sat next to it was aided to descend to the ground by the leader of the brigands on one side and his lieutenant on the other.
The leading brigand together with his lieutenantfell dead upon the road.
General Grant, then only a lieutenant of infantry, distinguished himself in the taking of what was known as the Bishop's Palace, but which was in fact a citadel.
Next day the Boers bombarded the town, mortally wounding Lieutenant Egerton, but had one of their laagers captured by the British cavalry and a battery of artillery.
On the 19th, Lieutenant De Crespigny with two troopers of the Household Cavalry came under heavy fire, and had to ride for their lives.
A patrol of twenty-five Australian Mounted Infantry and New South Wales Lancers under Lieutenant Dowling left that position to reconnoitre northwards to Norvals Pont.
But even more horrible treachery was displayed by a wounded Boer to Lieutenant Blundell.
Into this hell rode Lieutenant Roberts, only son of the Field-Marshal, an officer of infinite promise, Captain Schofield, and Captain Congreve.
Lieutenant Russell, with his face streaming blood, maintained that he had nothing more than a scratch.
When the Gordon Highlanders were beaten back on the disastrous day of Majuba, Lieutenant Macdonald, still unwounded, rallied his men for a last stand.
Lieutenant James, of the Royal Navy, however, the officer in charge of the naval guns, replied that he could go anywhere, or at least make the attempt.
A 15-pounder of the 4th Field Battery under Lieutenant Maine firing from the top of the hill.
