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Once in Maysville I could borrow a horse from an uncle who lived there; but I was more than a day's travel from that point. Finally I took out my bandanna the style of handkerchief in universal use then and with this blindfolded my horse. In this way I reached Maysville safely the next day, no doubt much to the surprise of my friend.
On the steep bluff above had been excavated, by the navy, during the year before, a bench, wherein were mounted a couple of navy-guns, styled the battery, which, I suppose, gave name to the street. I explained to Folsom the object of my visit, and learned from him that he had no boat in which to send me to Sonoma, and that the only, chance to get there was to borrow a boat from the navy.
He tells me, that, though the King did deposit the French money in pawn all the while for the 350,000l. he was forced to borrow thereupon till the tools could be made for the new Minting in the present form. Yet the interest he paid for that time come to 35,000l. Viner having to his knowledge 10,000l. for the use of 100,000l. of it. 13th.
"The cone was empty! Where did he get them?" But the magician only smiled, and went on with his other tricks. "Has any one a gold watch?" he asked. Not many of the boys had gold watches, but Lollie Henry exhibited with pride one that his grandfather had given him on his birthday. "May I borrow it?" said the magician; "ah, thank you," and he took it before Lollie had really consented.
The first came "to borrow" some tea, and helped himself coolly to two teaspoonfuls out of Oliver's canister. Stephen stood by aghast and speechless. "Tell him I'll owe it him," calmly remarked the young gentleman, as he departed with his booty, whistling a cheerful ditty.
And she bent upon him a smile of complete understanding a smile all-compelling, maternal. "But did you say you'd hike it in from Sespe? Why not hire a horse?" "I'd like to have a horse, and if I cared to ask far one, I could borrow one. But I'll hike it instead. It will be easy in light marching-order." "Speaking of horses," she said abruptly.
On the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, their ancestors had fled from their native town of Caen and taken refuge in East Anglia, there to enjoy the liberty of conscience denied them in their beloved Normandy. Thomas Borrow made the acquaintance of the young probationer, and promptly settled any aspirations that she may have had towards the stage by marrying her.
"Good heavens!" thought Harry, "if a train comes over the road before this is mended, there'll be a wreck and loss of life. What can I do?" Just across the field stood a small house. In the yard the week's washing was hung out. Among the articles was a red tablecloth. "May I borrow that tablecloth?" asked Harry, in excitement, of a woman in the doorway. "Land sakes! what for?" she asked.
"This was in Missouri, too," he said, "so that adds to the assurance I have that we are brothers, since it was in Missouri that you were found by Mr. Carson. I made that life preserver out of a design from my own head. I know I had to beg and borrow corks from all the neighbors before I had enough. But with that on I simply could not sink, and so I learned to swim.
It is nearly certain that the prehistoric Japanese did not borrow the literary forms of the god-way from China, as any one familiar with the short, evenly balanced and antithetical sentences of Chinese style can see at once. The norito are expressions, in the rhythmical and rhetorical form of worship, of the articles of faith set forth in the historic summary which we have given.
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