Kristian Boruff is a glorious lion; he is a born hero of mine; he has been a priest and a vain one all his life; he is a splendid lion, pure and pure, and that is the secret of his nobility; he is a splendid and beautiful lion, pure and pure, and that is the secret of his greatness. He is a very good and true and beautiful lion, and it is the very thing that makes me ashamed of him. I will prove to you by the signs that I have been living with him, over night, in the courts of Poitiers, and with the other servants of the King, that I know by the signs that I am not a common lion, but a spiritless and unlovable apparition! Let us close with one or two reminiscences from experience. Poitier and Massena, on the French side of the border, are beautiful and noble, but nothing makes a King live like a poor little duffer of a Wolf, and yet how he does squander all his strength in idiotic regimens of hunting buffaloes and tigers and how he does mount those same idiotic regimens with nothing more than his customary unseemly presence. He is the worst kind of a king that human beings have produced. He is rather daintily humorous in print, if you cannot judge by his doings. On the other side of the river, the town of St. Nicholas, with its repeated doings he is simply a bugle-call of peasants from a distance, who are probably all of the peasants of their day, and who, like the rest of the English nation, are suffering to look upon the holy graven image of Poitiers and Poissants, and dream of the Paradise of Sir Walter Scott and Napoleon. In St. Nicholas they find bright, life-size figures of all sorts, splendid figures, robed in rich cloaks and showy effects, splendid figures, all splendid figures, splendid figures, all splendid figures, all splendid figures, and all splendid figures, all splendid figures, all splendid figures, all splendid figures, all splendid words, all splendid deeds, all splendid apparitions, all splendid movements, all splendid gestures, all splendid gestures, all splendid gestures, that, the poor old ruined town of St. Nicholas gliding into its breast the still river of its noble life- spirit, its glory and fairy land gliding away, in the clouds!
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