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Before eleven o'clock the will must be either signed or cancelled. And for the present please! silence!" They exchanged good-nights. Melrose looked oddly after the young man, as the door closed. "He took it well. I suppose he's been sitting up nights over that precious memorandum. He was to be the popular hero, and I the 'shocking example. Well, he'll get over it.
But Wat was a hard man, and demanded surety; so the one cow had travelled the six moorland miles and would not return till the bond was cancelled. As well might he try to get water from stone as move Wat by any tale of a sick wife and dying child. The peat smoke got into his throat and brought on a fresh fit of coughing.
Tell him his orders are cancelled, and on your life let him hold no communication with the Dauphin. Having read the order through from beginning to end, he read it over a second time, sentence by sentence, pausing to consider each separately. "'Go to Amboise. Monsieur Beaufoy, I do not wish to ask you anything a man of honour such as you are cannot answer. Do they know you in Amboise?"
No judge is so skilful and attentive as not sometimes to err. Few are so honest as not sometimes to be partial. Petty judges would become insupportably tyrannical if they were not restrained by the fear of a superiour judicature; and their decisions would be negligent or arbitrary if they were not in danger of seeing them examined and cancelled.
He ended by compromising on both points. The repayment of the five hundred pounds was to be deferred indefinitely, the debt itself being absolutely cancelled in the meanwhile, but it was to revive if he should ever have the means to satisfy it. And also Helen was to be allowed to pay the theatrical liabilities, provided Cleo agreed to her doing so, though her identity was not to be divulged.
Their leader at length quieted them, but it was plain that his patience too was worn out. 'Do you surrender or do you not? he said. 'I am not going to stay out of my bed all night for you! 'I warn you, I answered, 'that the order you have there has been cancelled by the king! 'That is not my business, he rejoined hardily.
Louis and his minister studied the conditions of the colony on the St Lawrence and decided in 1663 to give it a new constitution. The charter of the One Hundred Associates was cancelled and the old Council of Quebec formed in 1647 was reorganized under the name of the Sovereign Council.
To evade this order it was arranged that Benjamin's indentures should be cancelled in order that the paper might be published in his name, but at the same time a secret contract was made between the parties, by which James was entitled to his brother's services during the unexpired period of apprenticeship.
They should not poke their noses into his affairs any more; he had just cancelled their trusteeships of his Will; he would take the whole of his business out of their hands, and put it into the hands of young Herring, and he would move the business of his Companies too.
The people I was staying with ragged me hard about it. It was the 5th of November, too! As I stepped out of the taxi at Charing Cross and handed my kit to the porter, he asked: "Boat train, Miss?" I nodded. "Been cancelled owin' to storm," he said cheerfully. I leapt out, and I think I shook him by the hand in my joy.
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