I don't want you to marry me now, but by and by, when I shall have made a name as a soldier, oror something," he added in painful turbulence of joy and fear over the great wordswhich he had been racking his small wits to fashion for weeks past, and, now that they were spoken, were not nearly so impressive as he had intended they should be.

He had ruled for sixty-eight years, his reign being marked by much turbulence in the empire, both political and social, and by a long series of domestic and personal disasters that culminated in the assassination of his nephew, the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the joint thrones of Austria and Hungary, which furnished the Teutonic excuse for the great war.

When Christian turbulence at last brought on, in 1854, the Russian attack which developed into the Crimean War, and Christian allies, though they frustrated that attack, made a peace by which the Osmanlis gained nothing, the latter were in no mood to welcome the repetition of the Tanzimat, which Abdul Mejid consented to embody in the Treaty of Paris.

Such was the turbulence with which they passed, that a good view could not be had of them to make out more nearly the description.

"I declare I think this is the prettiest or anyhow the grandest bit of the whole coast," said Eric, as they neared a glen through whose narrow gorge a green and garrulous little river gambolled down with noisy turbulence into the sea.

In spite of his strength of purpose, his temper was not always proof against the rapacity and turbulence by which he was surrounded.

Energy gave place to feeling, turbulence to intensity of character.