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It happens sometimes that the parts of these double persons quarrel with each other, especially while eating and drinking, when each claims the best and largest portions for himself. This species of mankind is distinguished for great piety, another difference between it and the inhabitants of our earth.
To you, my dear Harry, I am infinitely obliged for the three successive letters you wrote me about him, which gave me double pleasure, as they showed your attention for me at a time that you knew I must be so unhappy, and your friendship for him."* But then came an interval in Selwyn's academic career if such it may be called since he was certainly in Paris, much in want of money, at the end of 1742 and the beginning of 1743.
The long, pillared veranda, with its French windows opening to the floor; the wide double door giving entrance to a central hall; a score of slight and indefinable signs told us that the mansion had seen its days of comfort and elegance.
"God only knows," I answered. "For your sake, Karl, I hope He cares more than I. I would prefer death to the black cell I have just left." We went through many dark passageways and winding stairs to the audience hall. When we entered the hall, the courtiers fell back, leaving an aisle from the great double doors to the ducal throne.
He had laughed at Jem when he said his hand trembled, but his own shook as he took hold of the knocker, and gave the most comical double rap ever thumped upon a big front door.
Nobody hesitates at paying for a letter especially for a double one people are such fools and it was no trouble to get round a corner before there was time to open the epistles. The worst of this profession was, that I had to walk so much and so fast; and so frequently to vary my route. Besides, I had serious scruples of conscience.
"Now about that double dividend on the eighteenth " John Dowsett drew a slip of paper from his note-book and adjusted his glasses. "Let me show you the figures. Here, you see..." And thereupon he entered into a long technical and historical explanation of the earnings and dividends of Ward Valley from the day of its organization.
One of the most conspicuous examples in recent times of how a moderate-sized instrument may be utilized is afforded by the discoveries of double stars made by Mr. S. W. Burnham, of Chicago. Provided with a little six-inch telescope, procured at his own expense from the Messrs.
The inspection over, we climbed to a vineyard above the town and looked down at a river valley traversed by a double line of trees. The first line marked the canal, which is held by the French, who have gun-boats on it. Behind this ran the high-road, with the first-line French trenches, and just above, on the opposite slope, were the German lines.
There was a double object in this transaction: to preserve to the Grand-Duke his rights and privileges as a German prince, to secure the defence of this important borderland against French attack.
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