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The progress of the colony has thus been retarded, and its best interests sacrificed, to gratify the insatiable cupidity of a clique who boasted the exclusive possession of all the loyalty in the country; and every independent man who dared to raise his voice against such abuses was branded as a Republican. Mr.
A survival of the rude warfare of Plantagenet times, it bore as it still does the self assertive name of "Mont Orgueil," and boasted itself the only English fortress that had ever resisted the avenger of France, the constable Bertrand du Guesclin.
That girl had wit, education and talent-everything, in fact, that is needful to succeed in the profession she had adopted. During the supper Patu told me in Italian that he was on the point of taking her at the very moment I chose her, and the next morning he informed me that he had slept quietly all night. The Saint Hilaire was highly pleased with me, and she boasted of it before her companions.
All the boasted fabric of royal government in the South had come down with a crash and the Tories who had supported it were having evil days. While these events were happening farther south, Cornwallis himself, without waiting for word from Clinton in New York, had adopted his own policy and marched from Wilmington northward into Virginia.
Alas! these are the powerful causes which have always settled the destiny of great kingdoms, and which may level Old England, with all its boasted freedom, and boasted wisdom, to the dust.
From this court the captive Christians were led forth, one at a time, and asked if they would become renegades, yes or no. He who answered 'Yes, was put aside; but he who answered 'No, was instantly beheaded. Such was the plight of the Christian warriors who so recently had boasted of being about to conquer Egypt.
The principal towns of the north established for that purpose stock exchanges of their own, and Leeds especially, one-fifth of whose population had been authoritatively described in the first session of the new parliament as dependent on the poor-rates, now boasted a stock exchange which in the extent of its transactions rivalled that of the metropolis.
They say the devil strangled her." "Pooh! You speak of Mr. J . Is he the owner of the house?" "Yes." "Where does he live?" "In G Street, No. ." "What is he? In any business?" "No, sir, nothing particular; a single gentleman." I gave the potboy the gratuity earned by his liberal information, and proceeded to Mr. J , in G Street, which was close by the street that boasted the haunted house.
The young aristocrat boasted that fortune had permitted him to strike the last decisive blow; and the old plebeian, now seventy years of age, found his heart swelling with indignation because he received only new mortifications in return for his new services to the state, in whose behalf he had this time fought with reluctance.
A hundred times he had said to himself that afternoon, as he sat alone in the lovely park of which he had once said to Harold, he was to be the hare, and of whose possession in the future he had boasted to Jerrie that he did not care a sou, that he was glad she had refused him, for after all it was only an infatuation on his part; that the girl of the carpet-bag was not the wife for a Tracy; but the twinge of pain in his heart belied his words, and he knew he did love Jerrie Crawford better than he should ever again love any girl, whether the daughter of a governor or of the president.
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