Her last cry ended in a stillness like that which had encircled Denmark.
One man answered; one who had quarrelled with the French and their Emperor; but who knew it was not an emperor that had fallen.

Garibaldi, not always wise but to his end a hero, took his station, sword in hand, under the darkening sky of Christendom, and shared the last fate of France.

A curious record remains, in which a German commander testifies to the energy and effect of the last strokes of the wounded lion of Aspromonte.

But England went away sorrowful, for she had great possessions.
VIII--_The Wrong Horse_ In another chapter I mentioned some of the late Lord Salisbury's remarks with regret, but I trust with respect; for in certain matters he deserved all the respect that can be given to him.

His critics said that he "thought aloud"; which is perhaps the noblest thing that can be said of a man.