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hey're all Out", 87 Thomson the Poet, and Quin, 15 Thurot, Admiral, 79 TIME, Value of, 115 TRAVELLING, 116 Turenne, Marshal, 112 Turner, The Painter, 6 Tyrolese Heroine, 136 Van Dyke, 40 Vendean Servant, 91 Vernet--Picture of St. Jerome, 8 Villars, Marshal, 110 Villecerf, Madame de, 22 Voisin, Chancellor of Louis XIX., 34 Wager, Sir C., and the Doctors, 25 WAR, 117-124 Wardlaw, Archbishop of St. Andrew's, 49 Weeping at a Play, 31 Welch Dispute, A, 97 West, the Painter, 7 William III., and St. Evremond, 131 Willie Law, 22 Wise, Dr., and the Parliament, 131 Ximenes, Cardinal, 123 "Yellow Cabriolet," The, 28 York, Duke of, and the Housekeeper, 108 Zimmerman, 23 ANECDOTES. AFFECTION. General St. Amour.--This officer, who distinguished himself in the Imperial service, was the son of a poor Piedmontese peasant, but he never forgot his humble extraction. While the army was in Piedmont, he invited his principal officers to an entertainment, when his father happened to arrive just as they were sitting down to table. This being announced to the general, he immediately rose, and stated to his guests his father's arrival. He said he knew the respect he owed to them, but at the same time he hoped they would excuse him if he withdrew, and dined with his father in another room. The guests begged that the father might be introduced, assuring him that they should be happy to see one so nearly related to him; but he replied, "Ah, no, gentlemen; my father would find himself so embarrassed in company so unsuited to his rank, that it would deprive us both of the only pleasure of the interview--the unrestrained intercourse of a parent and his son." He then retired, and passed the evening with his father. The Deaf and Dumb Mother.--The late Countess of Orkney, who died at an advanced age, was deaf and dumb, and was married in 1753 by signs. She resided with her husband at his seat, Rostellan, near Cork. Shortly after the birth of her first child, the nurse saw the mother cautiously approach the cradle in which the infant lay asleep, evidently full of some deep design. The Countess, having first assured herself that her babe was fast asleep, took from under her shawl a large stone, which had purposely been concealed there, and, to the utter horror of the nurse, who largely shared the popular notion that all dumb persons are possessed of peculiar
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