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"Give your mistress my salam," he replied, "and tell her that the moon is new, and that I can only find eleven months in the year, and the sea is by no means full." Not understanding the meaning of these words, the servant repeated them word for word, as he had heard them, to his mistress; and thus his theft was discovered, and he was severely punished.
A sharp volley from the long-shore-men's guns, and a furious onslaught of pikes threw the royal detachment into the utmost disorder. Three officers of the Meathian cavalry, and nearly one hundred men were placed hors de combat; the three howitzers, eleven gunners, and several prisoners taken; making the third considerable success of the insurgents within a week.
Her maid came up to announce that everything was ready for her reception in the state-room, and that the train was about to draw out of the station. Mrs. Chadwick and I bade each other good-by. Two years passed before I saw her again. At eleven o'clock I returned to my rooms to pack a case and have the thing off my mind.
Four, five, six Shovels, mattocks, picks! Seven, eight, nine Light your lamp at mine. Ten, eleven, twelve Loosely hold the helve. We're the merry miner-boys, Make the goblins hold their noise. 'I wish YOU would hold your noise, said the nurse rudely, for the very word GOBLIN at such a time and in such a place made her tremble.
He left the house at a quarter past nine he was found by the body of the deceased a little before eleven; so that either it must have taken him more than an hour and a half to walk a quarter of a mile which is obviously absurd or he must have been waiting for nearly two hours in the grounds. Why did he not return at once to the house of Mr. Topham? For what or for whom was he waiting?
Of him she could learn without humiliation. His arrival was later than of wont. Only at eleven o'clock, when with disappointment she had laid aside her book to go to bed, did Tarrant's rap sound on the window. 'I had given you up, said Nancy. 'Yet you are quite good-tempered. 'Why not? 'It is the pleasant custom of wives to make a husband uncomfortable if he comes late.
She is, as she has told us, somewhat deaf; but none the less she mentioned in her evidence that she did hear something like a door slamming half an hour before the alarm was given. Half an hour before the alarm was given would be a quarter to eleven. I have no doubt that what she heard was the report of the gun, and that this was the real instant of the murder.
It was written on excellent paper, and directed in a man's handwriting to Mr. Gregory: "Thank you, Mrs. er " said Gertie. Then she went back into her room, put the letter carefully away in the drawer of the table and set about her household business. About eleven o'clock she stepped out for a little refreshment.
I shall always love you." It must have been about eleven o'clock that night when Paul Harley rang me up. Since we had parted in the early morning I had had no word from him, and I was all anxiety to tell him of the quaint little romance which unknown to us had had its setting in the room above.
It went on actually until the forenoon only, but my endurance cannot be measured by the time, for to me every hour of it was an arctic night. Yet it cannot have been much after eleven when the ring came at the bell, which I had forgotten to tie up after all. But this was not the doctor; neither, too well I knew, was it the wanderer returned.
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