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And when I assented, he went on, "Well, her Grace, in consideration of your good manners and extraordinary merit, appoints you to the vacant post of Receiver of Toll." I hurriedly passed in mental review the conduct and manners that had hitherto distinguished me, and was forced to admit that the Bailiff was right. And so, before I knew it, I was Receiver of Toll.
It is doubtful whether Alwin had heard the noise at all. He answered, absently: "Yes, and if we do not wish to come to the subject at once, we can say that we are cold and dropped in to warm ourselves." "To say that we are cold will always be truthfully spoken," Sigurd assented, his teeth chattering like beads.
"Certainly not," assented the doctor, inwardly thinking that it was much less surprising than it would have been in the case of one of his own girls. "In the second place, he is always harping upon the subject of Jacobs and his peculations an old subject, which he might well let rest.
And now, after the years we've toiled and moiled, to see these mad women wrecking the whole thing!" Winnington assented gravely. "I don't wonder you feel it so. But you still want it the vote as much as ever?" "Yes!" she said, at first with energy; and then on a more wavering note "Yes, but I admit a great many things have been done without it that I thought couldn't have been done.
I have seldom been more taciturn in my life. "Forty-five pounds," cried the jeweller; "and it would be cheap at fifty guineas." "That's right," assented Raffles. "That'd be dead cheap, I allow. But then, my boy, you gotten ready cash, and don't you forget it." I do not dwell upon my own mystification in all this. I merely pause to state that I was keenly enjoying that very element.
"Aye," assented Lafitte; "we've busted a plug, an' he has showed us a clean pair of heels, but it's a long chase if the Sea Rover does not overhaul him. We'll have to overhaul our engine first, though," he added thoughtfully.
The consul assented to these remarks, but a feeling of shame suggested itself to him if he should abandon the siege with his purpose unaccomplished. At length the matter was left entirely to the management of Quinctius.
The Alien Act and that for the Preservation of the Government were continued, together with the Militia Act, to March 1813; the bill to disqualify judges from being elected to the Assembly passed both Houses, and to these the Governor assented, proroguing the Parliament afterwards with great pleasure.
To this Claud readily assented; and they again set forth up the gentle stream, that, as before intimated, here came in from the southeast; and, after proceeding some distance, the anxious eye of the maiden fell on a place on the left bank, where a temporary shelter could easily be rigged up, under the wide-spreading and low-set limbs of a thick-topped evergreen, which, of itself, would be ample protection against the dews of heaven.
We ought to be permitted to present the doctor's certificate, in case of sickness, to make it certain; and he, to be just, ought to pay the substitute at least half the wages of the sick man. Otherwise, it is hard for us. What if three of us should suddenly be taken sick at once?" "Yes; that is certainly reasonable," assented Yozhov. "But, my friends, the principle of cooperation "
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