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She paused again, to be asked What match? But compelled by her auditor's invincible silence to make out her own case, she proceeded: "You must know, my good sir, that Sir John Hunter is, it seems, unconquerably bent upon a connexion with this family; for being refused by the daughter, he has proposed for the mother!" "Yes," said Mr. Palmer, bowing.
In connexion with Arai Hakuseki's impeachment of the Treasury commissioner, Hagiwara Shigehide, it was insisted that an auditor's office must be re-established, and it was pointed out that the yield of rice from the shogun's estates had fallen to 28.9 per cent, of the total produce instead of being forty per cent., as fixed by law.
The great feature of the restored castle is the Prudhoe Tower, built about twenty-five years ago. After entering the barbican, which admits to the outer ward, the visitor passes between the Abbot's Tower on the left and the Corner Tower and Auditor's Tower on the right. Earl Hugh's turreted tower also rises boldly from the battlements.
Evidently he had not; evidently, too, his auditor's mind had strayed slightly, for the latter said: "I s'pose you t'inkin' all at once 'bout gettin' marry, eh?" Phillips paled; he uttered a panicky denial. "Not yet! Oh no ! That is, I've THOUGHT about it a good deal can't think of anything else but it's too early yet. I'm in no position; I must make good first." "For why it's too early?
He left it to Barker J. Allen, and he tried to collect it also. He did not survive. Barker J. Allen left it to Anson G. Rogers, who attempted to collect it, and got along as far as the Ninth Auditor's Office, when Death, the great Leveler, came all unsummoned, and foreclosed on him also.
And still she went up and down, enlarging, diminishing, heaving her breath and waving her chin around, and saying, in broken utterances, while a hackman on her right held his whip in her auditor's face, crying, "Carriage, sir? Carriage, sir?" "Why didn' he rin agin a man, sur! I I oh! I wish Mr. Ristofalah war heer! to teach um how to walk! Yer frind, sur ixposing me!"
They have driven me away, because they thought I meant to harm you. But he said nothing wrong was in his heart, and asked me to pray for him, as he would need my prayers." At this part of her narrative, Jenny wept bitterly, and her auditor's eyes became dim also. Satisfied that Jenny's story was true in every particular, Mr. Lofton spoke kindly to her and sent her home.
That sermon was the best I've ever heard in Ontario, sir; yes, sir, the very best, patriotism, patriotism, from beginning to end! That's the thing! That's what the country needs, sir!" He pumped his auditor's hand up and down vigorously while he spoke, then, at the end, flung it from him, stepped back a pace and, striking an attitude, stood gazing up admiringly at the young minister.
"Sit down and we'll thresh it out. Here are some figures showing loss and expense in the general maintenance account. Look them over and tell me what you think." "Wastage, you mean?" queried the trainmaster, glancing at the totals in the auditor's statement. "That is what I have been calling it; a reckless disregard for the value of anything and everything that can be included in a requisition.
Coventry instanced in another thing, particularly wherein Sir G. Carteret did advise with him about the selling of the Auditor's place of the stores, when in the beginning there was an intention of creating such an office. This he confessed, but with some lessening of the tale Mr. Coventry told, it being only for a respect to my Lord Fitz-Harding. In fine, Mr.
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