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If I have at times been mistaken in my estimate of the measures calculated to ensure so desirable a result, I have at least never persisted in my error; I have surrounded myself with able and conscientious counsellors; MM. de Villeroy and de Jeannin were chosen by the most ancient and noble families in the kingdom the Cardinal de la Valette and the Bishop of Luçon-Richelieu are my advisers the estimable Miron, Provost of Paris, in conjunction with Barbin represent the tiers-état while as regards the people, I have ever been careful to mete out justice to them with an equal hand."
As Cecil knew, once out in the open, mutual distrust and watchfulness would ensure the keeping of the peace. Stuart, listening intently for the sound of shots, heard in the distance the Englishman's voice: "I forgot my pipe. I'll just go back for it." And then he heard steps coming at a light, but fast run. Evidently Cecil wanted to gain time.
That the class which it is desirable to see emigrating cannot do so by their own resources; and that no one of the other classes benefited by the operation would, separately taken, find it so profitable as to ensure their carrying it out upon a large scale.
They 'take the eye. If you would ensure yourself against deception, learn rather to observe the eye itself, and particularly the spots on it, the shape of the finger-nails, the set of the ears. These things cannot be simulated." "You seriously suggest that the man was not Professor Bulge that he was an impostor?" "The conclusion is inevitable. Where were you on Monday, Professor?"
The assets of the bank are, however, still very considerable, and there are real estates of great value belonging to the bank, and but slightly encumbered. We hope that in now suspending payment we shall be considered as taking the best and only step to ensure a just and equal distribution of our assets among our creditors."
A night-gong, far away in the city, made seven o'clock. 'Exactly four-and-twenty hours! said Strickland. 'And I've done enough to ensure my dismissal from the service, besides permanent quarters in a lunatic asylum. Do you believe that we are awake? The red-hot gun-barrel had fallen on the floor and was singeing the carpet. The smell was entirely real.
Colonel Monson reports most highly of your conduct during his retreat; and the mission that you undertook, at my request, to Colonel Ochterlony was a most dangerous one and, in itself, sufficient to ensure your promotion.
"I wish my children constantly to remember," said he, "how hard their ancestors toiled, and how poorly they lived, in order to ensure better days to those who should come after them." "And they will remember it," said a voice close behind us. I turned round. "Madame Ménou, j'ai l'honneur de vous présenter notre voisin, Monsieur Howard."
He was intermittently engaged, during these weeks, in the delicious, the enchanting business of constructing the ideal programme and scheming the spare hours to ensure its achievement. He lived in a dream and illusion of ultimate perfection. Several times, despite the spell of Swift, he glanced at his watch. The hand went from nine to ten minutes past ten.
And he lodged himself with the gods, building near his own abode a large temple of Apollo and a shrine of Vesta in order to ensure himself divine and eternal sovereignty. And then the seed of the imperial palaces was sown; they were to spring up, grow and swarm, and cover the entire mount.
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