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The introduction was pleasantly acknowledged all around. Miss Henshaw proved wholly well-bred and at ease. "Won't you join us here?" asked Dalzell, trying hard to conceal the fact that he didn't want any third and fourth parties. "I know you'll excuse us," answered Dave, bowing, "and I feel certain that I am running counter to Miss Meade's wishes.
It had been condemned to destruction by their own acknowledged government, and was therefore lost to their people; and could have been, without injustice, taken by us, and sent away, either as absolute prize of war, or for future compensation.
You are his daughter?" "Yes, monsieur; but he never acknowledged me." "That was that he might leave you part of his fortune." "He left me nothing; he made no will." "Indeed! Poor little woman! The Marshal died suddenly of apoplexy. But, come, madame, hope for the best. The State must do something for the daughter of one of the Chevalier Bayards of the Empire."
We are to advertise in the Times, and we are to address 'An Unknown Friend. What shall I say, Mr. Noel? The receipt of the information which he offers will be acknowledged by a reward of What sum of money do you wish me to set down, sir?" "Set down nothing," said Noel Vanstone, with a sudden outbreak of impatience. "Money matters are my business I say money matters are my business, Lecount.
But this is ever the manner of argumentative discourse: the opponent endeavours to draw from you conclusions which you are not prepared to defend, and which perhaps you have never before acknowledged even to yourself. I will put the proposition in a less disputable form. A happier condition of society is possible than that in which any nation is existing at this time, or has at any time existed.
For the excuse of the fish it must be acknowledged that very few members of the tribe are fitted with eyes for star-gazing. The eagle captures a dinner, not by the exercise of any very remarkable fleetness or adaptiveness or passion for fishing, but because of certain physical limitations on the part of the fish. "As is the osprey to the fish, who takes it By sovereignty of nature."
Wellington was anxious to maintain a strict neutrality, but he failed to prevent a ship of war and supplies of arms and ammunition going from Plymouth to Terceira in the Azores, where Donna Maria was acknowledged as queen.
It happened that the very next who was brought before me was one of her admirers, who was indicted upon that very head. A letter, which he acknowledged to be his own hand, was read, in which were the following words, "Cruel creature, I die for you." It was observable that he took snuff all the time his accusation was reading.
The crusaders everywhere gave him presents of food and money, and he became quite fat ere he arrived at Jerusalem, notwithstanding the fatigues of the way. If he had acknowledged in the first place that he had made the wound himself, he would not have been thought more holy than his fellows; but the story of the angel was a clincher.
It may, however, be easily conceived that the persons least attended to, afloat as well as on shore, often stand more in need of notice and assistance than their gifted brethren, who are better able to make their own consequence felt and acknowledged; for it must not be forgotten that these honest, hard-working men actually perform the greater part of all the routine drudgery of the service, and perhaps execute it better than men of higher talents could do in their place.
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