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There would be Hiram Higgins, postmaster and town constable, Walt Perkins, hotel man and town moderator, Lem Hodges, selectman, assessor and overseer of the poor, Nathan Elmes, likewise selectman, assessor and overseer of the poor, and Cale Rodgers, school committee-man and proprietor of the general store. Madison sauntered slowly along.
Even amid the shock and the confusion of the first moment it was with difficulty that Petrea restrained a loud laugh from bursting forth when she saw the amazement of the Assessor, and the leaps which he made, as he saw the confections hopping down the steps towards the gutter. It was the Assessor's own tribute to the festival of the day which was thus unluckily dispersed abroad.
We are perfectly sure that the Assessor received speedy assistance; that Sara was regaled with wine as well as with Louise's elixir; that Petrea's heart was comforted, and her toilet brought into order; and in confirmation of this our assurance we will quote the following lines from a letter of Louise, which on the next day was sent off home.
Munter tore off his coat, and opened a vein at the very moment in which he lost all consciousness. "What a silly fellow!" said the Assessor, as Henrik breathed again, "how can anybody be so silly when he is such a clever fellow! Nay, now all danger for the time is over. Death has been playing his jokes with us to-night! Now, like polite knights, let us be again in attendance on the ladies.
Jacobi is good; and if you talk seriously yet kindly to him, I am persuaded it will have the best effect." Judge Frank made no reply, but walked up and down the room in very ill humour. "Would you like to hear some news of your neighbour the pasquinade-writer?" asked Assessor Munter, who just then entered with a dark countenance.
"So I have heard," said the Judge; "and on that very account I do not trouble myself to read it." "Have you heard who has written it?" asked the visitor. "No," returned the other; "nor do I wish to know." "But you should do so," argued the Assessor; "people ought to know who are their enemies. It is Mr.
The sisters read the following remarks, in the handwriting of the Assessor. "'Happy is the lonely and the lowly! He may ripen and refresh himself in peace! Beautiful words, and what is better, true. "The foundling has proved their truth.
Well, he isn't alive. A good deal of water has flowed under the bridges since his day. It's a mere matter of business, of getting your respectable firm to retain a City Hall attorney to fix it up with the assessor." "How about the penitentiary?" I ventured, not too seriously. "I shan't go to the penitentiary, neither will Watling. What I do is to pay a lawyer's fee.
Quoth Ali, "So be it;" whereupon the merchant fetched an assessor from the Kazi's court and, taking the prescribed acknowledgment, delivered to him the key wherewith he entered the house. Presently Ali went about and, seeing in the inner court a well with a bucket, let this down and drew water, wherewith he made the lesser ablution and prayed the obligatory prayers.
A barbed-wire fence divided his sterile hills from our fertile valleys, and emphasised sharply the difference between a Government claim and a Spanish grant. The County Assessor valued the Swiggart ranch at the rate of one, and our domain at six dollars per acre. We owned two leagues of land, our neighbours but half a section.
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