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After the Peace of Lunéville, which recognized the right of the Swiss to adopt what form of government they thought fit, some of their deputies travelled to Paris with the draft of a constitution lately drawn up by the Chamber at Berne, in the hope of gaining the assent of the First Consul to its provisions and the withdrawal of French troops.
But I am dying of the love which I can not conquer. Will you kiss me as a token that you have pardoned me?" For the first time, perhaps, Marsa's lips, trembling with emotion, then touched the Prince's forehead. But, before kissing him, her eyes had sought those of her mother, who bowed her head in assent. "And you," murmured the dying Prince, "will you forgive me, Tisza?"
'Since I am encouraged by your lordship, said I, 'this shall be the first labour of my life; and, though I grant it is Herculean, I have little doubt of executing it effectually. His lordship, though not quite so certain of my success as I was, in the name of the church, again gave his hearty assent; and we, with smiles, thanks, and bows in abundance, took our leave: Enoch with a fine pisgah prospect of the land of promise; and I another Caleb, bearing away the luscious grapes I had been gathering, on which my fancy licentiously banqueted.
Bob grinned appreciatively, and again explored the clouds. "I'm going to see Sydney. May I show her this?" Bob took his father's "H'm" for an assent, and went out to saddle his horse.
'I must learn first to think of myself as a free woman again, it almost seems wrong today to talk like this; can you understand that feeling? I nod assent. 'Next time I must be sure, and you must be sure, she lays her fingers on my mouth as I am about to protest, 'S-sh! You shall have a year to think. If you repeat then what you have said today, I shall give you your answer.
I've an idea I'd look rather well as " He whispered a few words in her ear, and Mademoiselle threw up her hands, and laughed, and nodded in emphatic assent. Pixie and Miles fell to Bridgie's share, while the Major declared that he would have nothing to do with such foolishness, but with a ruminating expression on his face which belied the words.
I have given you some hints about the character of Gil Uraga. I have not told you all. He is worse than you can even imagine. I know him well. Do you see that little house, out yonder on the other side of the river?" Hamersley nodded assent. "In that hovel he was born. His father was what we call a pelado a poor devil, with scarce a coat to his back. Himself the same, but something worse.
Moreover, and always with this universal assent, it does other things outside the task originally assigned to it, and nobody finds that it usurps when, * it coins money, * it regulates weights and measures, * it establishes quarantines, * on condition of an indemnity, it expropriates private property for public utility, * it builds lighthouses, harbors, dikes, canals, roads,
In such a war there was no formal breach of the Triple Alliance, for the Triple Alliance only guarded against an attack on the dominions of Spain, and Ashley and his colleagues were lured into assent to it in 1671 by the promise of toleration. Toleration was still Ashley's first thought.
In the course of the debate on this proposition, which failed to receive the assent of the House, Baldwin, Price, and other prominent men expressed regret that any attempt should be made to disturb the settlement made by the imperial statute of 1840, which, in their opinion, should be regarded as final.
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