and was victorious in defiance of military tactics. I would do as he did."
"I'll be bound for it you would; probably you have some of the same sort of stubborn stuff in you."
"I should be sorry if I had not; he and Tell were brothers, and I'd scorn the Swiss, man or woman, who had none of the much-enduring nature of our heroic William in his soul."
"If Tell was like Wellington, he was an ass."
"Does not ass mean baudet?" asked Frances, turning to me.
"No, no," replied I, "it means an esprit-fort; and now," I continued, as I saw that fresh occasion of strife was brewing between these two, "it is high time to go."
Hunsden rose. "Good bye," said he to Frances, "I shall be off for this glorious England to-morrow, and it may be twelve months or more before I come to Brussels again; whenever I do come I'll seek you out, and you shall see if I
