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This measure was excused by the assertion, that it would require the head of a financier to look into and settle the accounts, which the late minister had, no doubt, left in a very confused state. Upon the same principle, M. Bertin was appointed to the direction of foreign affairs, and M. de Boynes was invested solely with the management of naval affairs.
One of them in his ramble, discovered, and brought to our commander, in the evening, a quart bottle, fastened with some wire to a projecting rock on the north side of the harbour. This bottle contained a piece of parchment, on which was written the following inscription: Ludovico XV. Galliarum rege et d. de Boynes regi a Secretis ad Res maritimas annis 1772 et 1773.
"Well, there is a little something queer about it," said Waller "a sort of accent." "I said English," continued the other, "but my family, the Boynes, are of Irish descent, and staunch followers of the Stuarts." "Yes; but that's all over now, you know," said Waller. "Don't you think you had better give all that up and go back?" "I was trying to go back," said the lad despairingly. "Or stop here."
We required merely automata, and M. de Boynes answered our purpose perfectly well; for a provisional minister nothing could have been better. We were in the utmost terror when his majesty communicated to us his election of a minister of war, and declared his intention of immediately signifying his pleasure to M. de Muy. Such a blow would have overthrown all our projects.
But to the Boynes it was one of the ever-recurring wonders of the whole incredibly compressed island a nest of counties, as they put it that for the production of its effects so little of a given quality went so far: that so few miles made a distance, and so short a distance a difference.
The mere fact that it was neither large nor exceptional made it, to the Boynes, abound the more richly in its special sense the sense of having been for centuries a deep, dim reservoir of life.
This measure was excused by the assertion, that it would require the head of a financier to look into and settle the accounts, which the late minister had, no doubt, left in a very confused state. Upon the same principle, M. Bertin was appointed to the direction of foreign affairs, and M. de Boynes was invested solely with the management of naval affairs.
But to the Boynes it was one of the ever-recurring wonders of the whole incredibly compressed island a nest of counties, as they put it that for the production of its effects so little of a given quality went so far: that so few miles made a distance, and so short a distance a difference.
The elusive specter had apparently never had sufficient identity for a legend to crystallize about it, and after a time the Boynes had laughingly set the matter down to their profit-and-loss account, agreeing that Lyng was one of the few houses good enough in itself to dispense with supernatural enhancements.
He had told his love and adventure in a place where walls heard and windows peered, and a rumour out of the ordinary went on the wind into every close and soared straight to the highest tenement even to the garret rooms. He felt that the women at the wells, very busy, as they pretended, over their boynes and stoups, would whisper about him as he passed, without looking up from their occupation.
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