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An odd despatch was that which went by the single wire of the military telegraph line to Fort Fetterman late that night. It was known that a small escort would leave that point early in the morning, going through with a staff-officer en route to join the field column now busily engaging the hostile Indians along the northern foot-hills of the Big Horn range.
If it wasn't for why he had to leave Nevada and if I knew there could be more than one kind of German, then I'd almost say Herman was the other kind. But, of course, there can't be but one kind, and he showed the Prussian strain fast enough in why he come up from Reno. Still and all, he's got his engaging points as a pure imbecile or something.
He reckoned very much, and not without reason, on this last expedient, as a means of engaging the attention of the bulk of the insurgents, while he himself, and two or three of their leaders, held a private council of war, undisturbed by the discordant opinions, or senseless clamour, of the general body. Kettledrummle more than answered the expectations of Burley.
But the other four gunboats speedily came to her assistance, and effectually diverted the fire of the fort from the ships that were engaging Fort Mex.
While the war was proceeding in Lombardy and Tuscany, the ambassador effected an arrangement with King Rene, who promised to come into Italy during the month of June, the League engaging to pay him thirty thousand florins upon his arrival at Alexandria, and ten thousand per month during the continuance of the war.
Yet her engaging face, being an open as well as a perceptive one, was not without her husband's latent smile. 'Mrs Boffin wishes to adopt a little boy, my dear. Mrs Milvey, looking rather alarmed, her husband added: 'An orphan, my dear. 'Oh! said Mrs Milvey, reassured for her own little boys. 'And I was thinking, Margaretta, that perhaps old Mrs Goody's grandchild might answer the purpose.
An Englishman is seldom out of humour, without proclaiming it to all the world; and the most forcible motives of interest, or expediency, cannot always prevail on him to assume a more engaging external than that which delineates his feelings.
When ambassadors from the King of Persia arrived in Macedonia, Philip was absent, and Alexander entertained them. His engaging manners greatly charmed them, and he became their intimate friend.
Nobody thinks it necessary to make a law that only a strong-armed man shall be a blacksmith. Freedom and competition suffice to make blacksmiths strong-armed men, because the weak-armed can earn more by engaging in occupations for which they are more fit.
"Can you lend me some money on that?" she asked. It was the first time she had conducted a business transaction of this nature, and she felt as though she were engaging in a burglary. "We don't lend money, miss," the girl said, "we buy outright. I can give you twenty-eight shillings for this," she added. "Twenty-eight shillings!" Helen gasped. "Why, it is worth oh, ever so much more than that!"
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