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The doctor would not wake her when he came; he said that she had been through a pretty sharp gastric attack, which would not recur, if she ate less of the most unwholesome things she could get, and went more into the air, and walked a little. He did not seem alarmed, and he made Clementina tell him about the dance, which he had been called from to Mrs. Lander's bed of pain.
Presently the players at the faro table rose and left. The dealer put away his cases. The lookout yawned and took off his green eye-shade. The man with the deformed shoulder and his companion were moving toward White-Eye when The Spider slipped through the doorway and sidled toward the middle of the room. His hat was pushed back. He fumbled at his tie with his right hand. "White-Eye!" he called.
In Luther's day the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, who happened to be a relative of the electors of Brandenburg, concluded to abolish the order and become duke of Prussia. In good time his family died out, and the duchy fell to the electors of Brandenburg. When one of them was permitted by the emperor, in the year 1701, to assume the title of king, he chose to be called King of Prussia.
The Boer mind could not grasp the fact that a man of thirty-five years could be a military leader, and for a long time the Boers treated the young commander with a certain amount of contempt. The old takhaars laughed at him when he asked them to perform any duties, and called him a boy.
She half expected Jack to do something, or say something, to help her. Still she was postmistress, and only she was qualified to answer the official questions. But if something was wrong? "Well, then maybe Jack will help me out," she thought. She was trembling and was much upset. It was the first time an inspector had called at her little office.
While this picture was being rolled away the band played and the children sang with great enthusiasm: 'Rule, Brittania, Brittania rules the waves! Britons, never, never, never shall be slaves! 'Our next picture is called "An Englishman's Home". 'Ere we see the inside of another room in Slumtown, with the father and mother and four children sitting down to dinner bread and drippin' and tea.
"... There are two heavens... Both made of love, one, inconceivable Ev'n by the other, so divine it is; The other, far on this side of the stars, By men called home." And these two heavens met, over at Boyntons', during these cold, white, glistening December days. Lois Boynton found hers first. After a windy moonlit night a morning dawned in which a hush seemed to be on the earth.
I was waiting for you expecting you. Then Gladys called you." "I didn't see you," he said. "I didn't call you," she observed serenely. And, after a moment: "Do you see only those who hail you, Captain Selwyn?" He laughed: "In this life's cruise a good sailor always answers a friendly hail." "So do I," she said. "Please hail me after this because I don't care to take the initiative.
'If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household? 'The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord. Our Lord reiterated the statement in another place in John's Gospel, reminding them that He had said it before.
But this appeal met offers of "words only" and Denmark withdrew from the strife in despair. James in fact was as confident in his diplomatic efforts as ever; but even he saw at last that they needed the backing of some sort of armed force, and it was to procure this backing that he called for supplies from the Parliament. The Commons were bitterly chagrined.
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