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I am going armed with every sort of paper provisional passport from our consul, permis de sejour from my mayor here, and a local permit to enter and leave Paris, which does not allow me to stay inside the fortifications after six o'clock at night, unless I get myself identified at the prefecture of the arrondissement in which I propose to stay and have my passport vised. August 24, 1914.
After a pleasant chat and good-by to the people of the Tarawa, and to Mr. and Mrs. Jardine, I again weighed anchor and stood across for Thursday Island, now in plain view, mid-channel in Torres Strait, where I arrived shortly after noon. Here the Spray remained over until June 24.
In 1817 the charge was 32 million pounds " 1842 " " " 28 " " " 1857 " " " 28.8 " " In 1895 the charge was 25 million pounds " 1903 " " " 27 " " " 1914 " " " 24 " "
There is evidence to show in an official communiqué from General Joffre published on August 24, 1914, that it was intended to be merely the left wing of a gigantic French battle offensive on the adopted German plan from Condé to Belfort.
She was contracted to the duke at Breda, November 24, 1659, and married at Worcester-house, 3rd September, 1660, in the night, between eleven and two, by Dr. Joseph Crowther, the duke's chaplain; the Lord Ossory giving her in marriage. Kennet's Register, p. 246. She died 31st March, 1671, having previously acknowledged herself to be a Roman Catholic. See also her character by Bishop Morley.
However, we saw what we wished as we wished, and the impression is perhaps clearer than if it had been disturbed and mixed with other sights. And now, being near 12, and I having walked about 8 miles, and been up since 6, must go to bed, though I feel neither sleepy nor tired. To Lucy Stanley. June 24, 1816. ...Away with me to Waterloo!
But she made a frightful mess of it with me: Great happiness awaits me when I am as old again as I am now; a great passion and great wealth. Of course that must mean that I am to marry at 24. At 24! How absurd! Dora says that I look much younger than 12 so that she meant 20 or even 18. But that's just as silly, for Dr. H., who is a doctor and knows so many girls, says I look older than my age.
Lady Scott is certainly better, and has promised not to attempt quitting her room. Henry Scott has been here, and his canvass comes on like a moor burning. April 24. Good news from Brighton. Sophia is confined; both she and her baby are doing well, and the child's name is announced to be Walter a favourite name in our family, and I trust of no bad omen. Yet it is no charm for life.
On July 24 Miss Esther Ogden, a director of the National Association, with a deputation of women, appeared before the National Democratic Committee in session at Columbus, O., presenting a memorial from that association, signed by Mrs. Catt, urging the committee to assume the responsibility of achieving the ratification and she brought their favorable answer to Nashville.
Hour after hour we waited, recalling tales of Indian life and Afridi warfare, or watching the lights in the Boer laagers reflected on a cloudy sky. But except for a hot wind the night was peculiarly quiet, and not a single shell was thrown: only from time to time the sharp double knock of a rifle showed that the outposts on both sides were alert. November 24, 1899.
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