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"Why, you are only a boy. Where is your leader? It is he with whom my present business is concerned." "Your Excellency," responded George, "I have the honour to be the captain of the company you see about you." "Ten thousand pardons, senor!" exclaimed the Governor, bowing low. "I trust that you will magnanimously forgive my hasty expression of surprise.
I desired her Excellency to lay me at the feet of her Majesty, and to tell her Majesty that I esteemed the honour according as I ought, of whose bounty and graces I and mine had abundantly received ever since our coming into this kingdom.
This we have been unable to accomplish, owing to the command which your Excellency has laid upon us to meet you this day for the purpose of prorogation.
Father Murray was still reading the letter and Mark motioned to Saunders to come to his side. Looking over the priest's shoulder, Mark read the lines again: "My Dear Mark: His Excellency isn't a very good housekeeper; I have found an envelope in one of the books, and a tiny slip of blue-corded pencil in the drawer of my dressing-table.
"That was a very primitive expedient, your Excellency, to say the best of it," he remarked. "Have you nothing better to offer?" The reply was a wild-beast growl, and taking it for a negative, Kent went on. "Then perhaps you will listen to my proposal. The papers you are so anxious about are here," tapping the envelope on the table.
"Does that mean that you mean to escape and leave us?" "His Excellency the great Hakim knows that I have sworn to be faithful even unto death," said the old man proudly. "No, I will not leave you. I only speak out and tell you of our peril. If the prisoner we are trying to save were here I would say, Go this night. But he is not here, and our position is very bad."
Here truly is a young Royal gentleman that knows his own mind, while so many do not. It is to Excellency Robinson, among all the sons of Adam then extant, that we owe this interesting Passage of History, authentic glimpse, face to face, of the young Friedrich in those extraordinary circumstances: every feature substantially as above, and recognizable for true.
But at that very instant a noise of arms sounded in the enclosure, the house was surrounded by soldiers, and a lieutenant of gendarmes, seizing Gabriel, said in a loud voice, "In the name of the law, I arrest you for the murder that you have just committed upon the person of his excellency and illustrious lordship, the Prince of Brancaleone."
John Child, brother of Sir Josiah, and Governor of Bombay, was created a baronet by the style of Sir John Child of Surat: he was declared General of all the English forces in the East; and he was authorised to assume the title of Excellency.
She steadied her shuddering knees and trembling lips. "Are you Gabriel de Espinosa, who has come to Madrigal to set up as a pastry-cook?" she asked him. "To serve your Excellency." "Then be welcome, though I am sure that the trade you least understand is that of a pastry-cook." The kneeling man bowed his handsome head, and fetched a deep sigh.
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