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Here are the 21 canvases that are extant, and the prices paid: No. 1 A young woman weighing gold, 155 florins; 2 A milk girl, 175 florins; 3 The portrait of the painter in his studio, 45 florins; 4 A young woman playing the guitar, 70 florins; 5 A gentleman in his chamber, 95 florins; 6 A young lady playing the clavecin, with a gentleman who listens, 30 florins; 7 A young woman taking a letter from her servant, 70 florins; 8 A servant who has drunk too much asleep at a table, 62 florins; 9 A merry company, 73 florins; 10 A young lady and a gentleman making music, 81 florins; 11 A soldier with a laughing girl, 44 florins; 12 A young lacemaker, 28 florins; 13 View of Delft, 200 florins; 14 A house at Delft, 72 florins; 15 A view of some houses, 48 florins; 16 A young woman writing, 63 florins; 17 A young woman, 30 florins; 18 Young woman at a clavecin, 42 florins; 19 A portrait in antique costume, 36 florins; 20 and 21 Two pendants, 34 florins.
"She's got it rather badly," Charles murmured to me when the ladies had left the dining-room. But I was not going to discuss Lady Auriol with Charles. I grunted and sipped my port and told a gratified host that I recognized the '81 Cockburn. Sir Julius and Lady Verity-Stewart went to bed early after the sacramental game of bridge. Charles, obeying orders, followed soon afterwards.
Having journeyed thirty-five days over the ice, beginning at 81 deg. 12 min. 15 sec. he was compelled to retrace his course. So far the exertions of the British Government.
From entries in Washington's account book we know that this equivalent in 1755 was £93.15; during each of the next four years it was £87.10, and for 1760 it was £81.5. Up to 1759 Washington was so constantly engaged in fighting the French and Indians that he had little time and opportunity to look after his private affairs and in consequence they suffered.
Nor does there appear to have been any collision between the two tides of immigrants, for the first appearance of the Kumaso in a truculent role was in A.D. 81 when they are said to have rebelled. The incident, though remote from the capital, was sufficiently formidable to induce the Emperor Keiko to lead a force against them in person from Yamato.
If we do not reject the story that he read a portion of his work at the Olympian Games, when Thucydides, one of his listeners, was yet a boy, and if we suppose the latter to have been about fifteen, this anecdote is calculated to bear the date of Olym. 81, B. C. 456, when Herodotus was twenty-eight. The chief residence of Herodotus was at Samos, until a revolution broke out in Halicarnassus.
Compared with the year 1891, our receipts from customs duties fell off $42,069,241.08, while our receipts from internal revenue increased $8,284,823.13, leaving the net loss of revenue from these principal sources $33,784,417.95. The net loss of revenue from all sources was $32,675,972.81.
The consuls whom he allowed to be elected for 81 were of course possessed of merely nominal power. Twenty-four lictors preceded him in the streets.
Bernard Beere at The Adelphi in December, '81; but the author had to be content with this advertisement. December came and went and Vera was not staged. It seemed probable to Oscar that it might be accepted in America; at any rate, there could be no harm in trying: he sailed for New York. It was on the cards that he might succeed in his new adventure.
But men who have lived in the bad ages need not be pitied, and those who live to-day need not be pessimistic. For Fourier believed in metempsychosis, and could tell you, as if he were the private secretary of the Deity calculating the arithmetical details of the cosmic plan, how many very happy, tolerably happy, and unhappy lives fall to the lot of each soul during the whole 81,000 years.
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