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At one time he intended to collect his works together, and to form a general exhibition of them all.
In the mean time, he despatched emissaries to his friends in North Carolina, to inform them of the necessary delay of his expedition into their country, and to request them to attend to their harvest, collect provisions, and remain quiet until late in August or early in September, when the King's troops would be ready to enter the province.
Grave situation of the army. Loss and recapture of Borisoff. The bridge over the Beresina burnt. We collect much booty from Borisoff. Chap. 18. Corbineau rejoins 2nd Corps. The enemy are deceived. Chap. 19. Loss of Partouneaux's division. The catastrophe at the Beresina. 2nd Corps forms the rearguard. I am wounded again. Chap. 20.Intense cold. Thieving in the army. Arrival at Wilna. Using sledges.
Business began to pour in from Brauer and, frankly, Fred was disturbed. He wasn't sure of Brauer's business scruples. "I wonder if he's promising these people rebates," he said to Helen one day, following an avalanche of new risks. "Well, you'll know soon enough when he begins to collect the premiums," she replied, indifferently.
Like one awaking from a dream, Albert saw Isa Marlay, her hand resting against one of the posts which supported the piazza-roof, looking even more perfect and picturesque than ever in the haziness of the moonlight. "Mr. Charlton, I want to speak to you about Katy." It took Albert a moment or two to collect his thoughts. When he first perceived Miss Marlay, she seemed part of the landscape.
"Collect our cattle, pigs, and poultry, take our guns and ammunition, and a supply of food, and get out of the wood as fast as possible," he answered, quite calmly. "In a few minutes, if I mistake not, we shall have the forest blazing away all round us; and nothing that I know of can save the hut from destruction.
And yet we may be wrong. But what would it profit a burglar to gain the whole contents and wear out his soles. If he got in that safe, he would find a package of bills that we tried for a year to collect, and we would give him the bills if he asked for them, and he could save his powder.
Would that we had our grotto opened, that we might collect a store of them, now that they are ripe." My boys pointed out to me exactly the situation of the grotto, judging from the rock above, and longed for their tools, that they might commence the opening directly.
On visiting the governor's country-house he discovered that the Earl had gone to the plantation of Mr Jefferson, and he immediately determined, with such aid as he could collect, to attack it, in the hopes of at once either capturing the Earl or destroying him and his family.
And you didn't persuade him; he is all ice and iron: there isn't a soft place nor a warm one in him anywhere. That is your secret? Look here; you owe me a hundred dollars for unintentionally giving you a chance to perform a miracle for it is a miracle that you've done." "That is all right," I said, "collect it of Jimmy Lewis."
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