He used to be Russian Ambassador at Washington.

I told him I had an uncle who fell down a shaft and broke himself in two, as much as a year before that.

That was a falsehood, but then I was not going to let any man eclipse me on surprising adventures, merely for the want of a little invention.

The Baron is a fine man, and is said to stand high in the Emperor's confidence and esteem.
Baron Ungern-Sternberg, a boisterous, whole-souled old nobleman, came with the rest.

He is a man of progress and enterprise--a representative man of the age.