Tom Singleton, Dragoon and Dramatist

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1879 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. AND IT IS CLEARED UP. But with a noble fury and fair spirit, Seeing his reputation touch'd to death, Hard fate, he cried, I might have died in war! Timon of Athens. II paralt, reprit le commandant en separlant a lui-meme, que cedocteur est decidement un homme. Oh! oui, monsieur, et un brave homme! Aussi n'est il gueres de gens ici qui ne le mettent dans leurs prieres du soir et du matin 1--De Balzac. When Mr. Frederick Graham returned to Queen Anne Square on the day after Tom Singleton's visit, and found a note in the dragoon's handwriting, his cheek did not blench and his hand did not tremble. He read the missive with apparent calmness, and when he handed it to his wife with the remark, So Tom Singleton has been alive all this time, and is now at Fullerton, the words were spoken with a tone of such absolute unconcern, that Beatrice was not a little shocked, at the indifference with which her husband received the startling and joyful intelligence that his best and oldest friend had risen, as it were, from the dead and was once more among them. But Nature is not to be braved or routed with impunity. It is possible to appear to vanquish her, but the victory is transient and illusory. She soon turns upon her seeming conqueror and exacts from him a heavier tribute than would at first have satisfied her. One of the kindest-hearted and wisest men of our epoch told me that, suadentc diabolo, he had gone to see the execution of one of the most truculent murderers of the present century. He was shocked at the absolute indifference with which he watched one man take another's life in the presence of a few awed and of thousands of ribald and blaspheming spectators. Good heavens! he asked himself, am I a brute beast? Have I no heart, no feel...