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She will not give any recognition unless the creditors of the old regime are guaranteed. In June, 1920, the government of Moscow sent some gold to Sweden to purchase indispensable goods. Millerand, President of the Council of Ministers and Minister of Foreign Affairs, declared to the Minister of Sweden at Paris that if his Government consented to receive Russian gold ferait acte de receleur.
What figures from the Comédie Humaine of Roman society of the first century throng the pages of Tacitus Sejanus, Arruntius, Piso, Otho, Bassus, Caecina, Tigellinus, Lucanus, Petronius, Seneca, Corbulo, Burrus, Silius, Drusus, Pallas, and Narcissus; and those tragic women of the Annals imperious, recklessly daring, beautiful or loyal Livia, Messalina, Vipsania, the two Agrippinas, mothers of Caligula and of Nero, Urgulania, Sabina Poppaea, Epicharis, Lollia Paulina, Lepida, Calpurnia, Pontia, Servilia, and Acte!
We started in all sorts of conveyances train, carriage, voiturette and found the Grande Rue full of people. The official breakfast was over, also the visit to the Mairie, where there are a few souvenirs of the poet his picture, acte de naissance, and signature.
She evidently knew all the secrets of the organization, and I gathered that she was indispensable to the group who controlled it. "Respecting Fire-Tongue himself, his origin, his appearance, she was resolutely silent, a second Acte, faithful to the last. That the ends of this cult were not only religious but political, she did not deny, but upon this point she was very reticent.
He is a curiosity-merchant at Lyons; and, though he cannot affirm that Peytel was the person who bought this pistol of him, he perfectly recognizes Peytel as having been a frequent customer at his shop! * This sentence is taken from another part of the "Acte d'accusation." "No, we may fearlessly affirm that Louis Rey was not guilty of the crime which Peytel lays to his charge.
In one moment Lygia recognized Atacinus, a freedman of Vinicius, who had visited the house of Aulus. Acte screamed; but Atacinus bent low and said, "A greeting, divine Lygia, from Marcus Vinicius, who awaits thee with a feast in his house which is decked in green." The lips of the maiden grew pale. "I go," said she. Then she threw her arms around Acte's neck in farewell.
The three young men were, however, nearly of the same age, and being equally unprincipled and dissolute, they banded themselves together in the pursuit and enjoyment of vicious indulgences. Nero made Otho and Senecio his confidants in his connection with Acte, and it was in a great measure through their assistance and co-operation that he accomplished his ends.
She is trying, I do believe, to atone; she is trying to do her duty by making, as it were, une acte de presence; one wants to be very gentle with her; one doesn't want to make things more difficult than they must already seem. Poor, dear little mama. But as for me, Jack, it's more than pleasures that I have to give up. I have to say no to some of those claims that I've given my life to.
In Aulus's house, Vinicius had been different, he had been very kind, but since yesterday's feast she feared him, and would rather flee to the Lygians." "But in Aulus's house," inquired Acte, "he was dear to thee, was he not?" "He was," answered Lygia, inclining her head. "And thou wert not a slave, as I was," said Acte, after a moment's thought. "Vinicius might marry thee.
But though he had promised himself to inquire of her calmly, he pressed his head with his hands again, and said, with a face distorted by pain and anger, "She is gone. She was taken from me on the way!" After a while, however, he recovered, and thrusting his face up to Acte's, said through his set teeth, "Acte!
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