No realism is more crude than that of the disillusionized idealist; and for months the young Czar had seen his dream of a free and happy Europe fade away amidst the smoke of Napoleon's guns and the mists of English Muddling.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose
"Muddling work," he used to call the floating method of fly fishing.
"A Cotswold Village"
J. Arthur Gibbs
Muddling work, I calls it.
"A Cotswold Village"
J. Arthur Gibbs