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The request of the British consul that these alterations might be allowed was peremptorily rejected, and directions were given that she should be restored precisely to the situation in which she entered the port. The administration received strong additional evidence of the difficulty that would attend an adherence to the system which had been commenced, in the acquittal of Gideon Henfield.

"There are half-a-dozen alterations I want to make now. I'll touch it up to-morrow. It'll keep till then." "That sort of stuff would keep for years if it wasn't for the Scrutineer," said Stratton. "Very few papers care to publish it nowadays." "The Scrutineer is getting just like all the rest of them," commented George.

You friends must get me some small yearly allowance, just sufficient to secure for me and my wife a quiet existence in Zurich, as for the present I am not allowed to be near you in Germany. I talked to you in Weimar of a salary of three hundred thalers which I should wish to ask of the Grand Duchess for my operas, alterations of the same, and the like.

It would appear that the French missionaries, exceeding their vocation, had wished to make some alterations in the Corean form of government, but their attempts not meeting the approbation of those in power, they fell a sacrifice to their good intentions. On the 9th we sailed for Sabangyat to pick up the two cutters. We arrived there the next day, and were joined by the master.

And so with other things that are on earth. The stars and the sun and clouds, they have not changed!" "That is a consolation, is it not?" observed Balder, between a smile and a sigh. Gnulemah was not the first to charge upon the world the alterations in the individual; nor the first, either, to find comfort in the constancy of Heaven.

"Will you soon be out of bed?" "He must really be allowed to lie there while he has his coffee!" cried Ellen from the kitchen. Brun ran once round the house to pass the time. He was not happy until he had shown it all to Pelle and got him to approve of the alterations. This was where he had thought the road should go. And there, where the roads crossed, a little park with statuary would look nice.

"You think that he will not come, then!" "I fear that he cannot." "I'm sorry for that. However, tell him all that I have told you, and agree to any alterations in the settlements that he may see fit to suggest. There! Go to Salome! Go to Salome! I must be off to the House," said the conscientious M.P. rising, and putting an end to the interview.

He could come and go without being conscious of a pair of eyes glaring upon him and without hearing words of indignation stifled between grating teeth. Don Andrés and his friends at the Club kept asking him when the wedding would take place. In presence of "the children" doña Bernarda would speak of alterations that would have to be made in the house.

During this confinement, Luther's opinions gained ground in Saxony. The University of Wittenberg made several alterations in the form of Church worship, abolishing, in particular, the celebration of private masses for the souls of the dead. Two events counteracted the pleasure of the reformer when the news came to him.

Brooksmith will continue to receive on the old premises from four to seven; business carried on as usual during the alterations" the greater number of us would have rallied. I felt indeed each time as if I were attending the last coucher of some social sovereign.