DARWIN'S MISSING LINK 
 
 
out. Thus, beginning with the larvve of 
ascidians (a marine mollusc,) we get by 
development to fish lowly organized (as 
the laneelet), thence to ganoids and other 
fish, then to amphibians. From amphi- 
bians we get to birds and reptiles, and 
thence to mammals, among which comes 
the monkey, between which and man is a 
MISSING LINK. 
 
  Dashall (The Hon. Tom), cousin of 
Tally-ho. The rambles and adventures 
of these two blades are related by Pierce 
Egan (1821-1822). 
 
  D'Asumar (Count), an old Nestor who 
fancied nothing was so good as when he 
was a young man. 
  "Alas! I see no men nowadays comparable 
to those I knew heretofore ; and the tournaments 
are not performed with half the magnificence as 
when I was a young man .... " Seeing some 
fine peaches served up, he observed, "In my 
time, the peaches were much larger than they 
are at present; natures degenerates every day." 
"At that rate," said his companion, smiling, 
"the peaches of Adam's time must have been 
wonderfully large."-Lesage, Gil Blas, iv. 7 
(1724). 
 
  Daughter    (The), a  drama   by   S. 
Knowles (1836). Marian, "daughter" of 
Robert, once a wrecker, was betrothed 
to Edward, a sailor, who went on his last 
voyage, and intended then to marry her. 
During his absence a storm at sea arose, 
a body was washed ashore, and Robert 
went down to plunder it. Marian went 
to look for her father and prevent his 
robbing those washed ashore by the 
waves, when she saw in the dusk some 
one stab a wrecked body. It was Black 
Norris, but she thought it was her father. 
Robert being taken up Marian gave wit- 
ness against him, and he was condemned 
to death. Norris said he would save her 
father if she would marry him, and to 
 
 
this she consented; but on the wedding 
day Edward returned. Norris was taken 
up for murder, and Marian was saved. 
 
   Daughter    with   Her    Murdered 
 Father's Head. Margaret Roper, daugh- 
 ter of Sir Thomas More, obtained privately 
 the head of her father, which had been 
 exposed for some days on London Bridge, 
 and buried it in St. Dunstan's Church, 
 Canterbury (1835). Tennyson alludes to 
 this in the following lines:- 
 Morn broadened on the borders of the dark, 
 Ere I saw her who clasped in her last trance 
 Her murdered father's head. 
   The head of the young earl of Derwent- 
 water was exposed on Temple Bar in 
 1716. His wife drove in a cart under the 
 the arch, and a man, hired for the pur- 
 pose, threw the young earl's head into 
 the cart, that it might be decently buried 
.-Sir Bernard Burke. 
  Mdlle. de Sombreuil, daughter of the 
  Comte de Sombreuil, insisted on the shar- 
  ing her father's prison during the "Reign 
  of Terror," and in accompanying him to 
the guillotine. 
 
  Dauphin (Le Grand), Louis due de 
Bourgoyne, eldest son of Louis XIV., for 
whom was published the Delphine Classics 
(1661-1711). 
  Dauphin (Le Petit), son of the "Grand 
Dauphin" (1682-1712). 
 
  Daura, daughter of Armin. She was 
betrothed to Armar, son of Armart, Erath 
a rival lover having been rejected by her. 
One day, disguised as an old grey-beard, 
Erath told Daura that he was sent to con- 
duct her to Armar, who was waiting for 
her.   Without  suspicion she followed 
her guide, who took her to a rock in the 
midst of the sea, and there left her. Her 
brother Arindal, returning from the chase, 
 
 
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DAURA