Identifier: portraitgallery02duyc (find matches)
Title: Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America. With biographies
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Duyckinck, Evert A. (Evert Augustus), 1816-1878
Subjects: Biography, Portraits Biography Portraits
Publisher: New York : Johnson, Fry and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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o divine how promotion could havebeen so rapid in an army where everything is regular. I looked again, andthe quick, elastic step, the slender, al-most womanly wrist, contrasted strange-ly with his rank, which I now noticedto be that of a full general. On look-ing into his face, I was still more sur-prised to recognize Gen. Von Moltke.We continued on the remaining hun-dred yards to the chapel-door together.He is a man of few words, of a singu-larly youthful expression of counte-nance and eye; and, although oneknows that he is seventy years of age,and heavy time-lines mark his face, itis hard to shake off the idea that he isa boy. He has a light and nearly trans-parent complexion, a clear, blue eye,flaxen hair, white eyebrows, and nobeard. He speaks good English, and,on calling at his room, I foimd himvery affable, and full of sagacity andaccurate knowledge. In his room werea few chairs, a desk, on which was dis-I^layed a map of France, and not an-other scrap of anything to be seen. =^
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