It seems to me, however one looks at it—and I am torpedoing, shorthanding, my arguments, though they can be developed at great length—that there is no military case for a large standing Army, and I pick out three arguments that I think are tremendously important which I should like the Minister to answer, even though he may reject them.

It was a breezy sunny day; the air freshened the girls' cheeks and gracefully dishevelled their ringlets: …

He handled the stressful situation with great sangfroid.

I should be sorry, he wrote on the 30th of August, 1560, that into the heart of a person of such good family, and one that touches me so nearly, so miserable an inclination should have entered; being able to assure you that whereinsoever he refuses to obey me I shall know perfectly well how to make it felt that I am king.