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"I'm sure you never had a word to say against her father. The old colonel was a perfect type of the French gentleman, from all I hear." "Yes, and her mother is as perfect a type of a Chippewa squaw, if she is only a half-breed and claims to be only a sixteenth. Rollins, there's Indian blood enough in Nina Beaubien's little finger to make me afraid of her.
She lived in a house of her own, enjoyed the income of an estate assigned to her by the old Mohar, and left to her son-in-law the care of educating her son, a handsome and overbearing lad, with all the claims and pretensions of a youth of distinction. Such great benefits would have oppressed and disgraced the proud Katuti, if she had been content with them and in every way agreed with the giver.
Alain had instructed M. Hebert to press the contractor; the contractor had replied, that if not pressed he could soon settle all claims if pressed, he must declare himself bankrupt. The Chevalier de Finisterre had laughed at the alarm which Alain conceived when he first found himself in the condition of debtor for a sum he could not pay creditor for a sum he could not recover.
In the Orient, mesmerized by its own claims to represent all that humanity ever could or would know of God and truth, the Islamic world sank steadily deeper into ignorance, lethargy, and a sullen hostility to a human race which failed to acknowledge this spiritual preeminence.
"Did you so wholly lose your politeness as to attack your guest for asserting his claims to be a gentleman? I am annoyed with you." "He says he has to work for a living," said Oscar, sullenly. "So may you, some time." "I am rich." "You may not always be. At any rate, being rich doesn't insure gentlemanly behavior, as your conduct to-day clearly shows.
The plan of Cleopatra the mother, after her husband's death, was to make her son the king of Egypt, and to govern herself, as regent, until he should become of age. The friends and adherents of Physcon, however, formed a strong party in his favor. They sent for him to come to Alexandria to assert his claims to the throne.
It had been current long before the rising that the Volunteers knew they could not seriously embarass England, and that their sole aim was to make such a row in Ireland that the Irish question would take the status of an international one, and on the discussion of terms of peace in the European war the claims of Ireland would have to be considered by the whole Council of Europe and the world.
Now the arguments we shall employ will, on the whole, be similar to those which we made use of in the second chapter, wherein we attempted to ascertain the conditions under which a male becomes intolerant of other males of its own species, and examined more especially the claims of the "territory" as opposed to those of the "female."
For the favoured there was "plenty o' gold plenty o' gold." "But," said Salaman, "there are few things more mysterious than its whereabouts or why it should be where it is. Don't talk to me about mining experts we've had 'em here. But who can explain the mystery of Minóok? There are six claims in all this country that pay to work. The pay begins in No. 5; before that, nothing.
According to her will, and in deference to the position which you must now take up amongst us, we still treat you as no other has ever been treated by us. The Double Four admits your leadership and claims you for its own." "I am not prepared to discuss anything of the sort," Peter Ruff declared doggedly, "until my wife is restored to me." The Marquis smiled. "The traditions of your race, Mr.
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