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"You shall not touch him here," said Bucklaw; "he once gave me my life, and were he the devil come to fly away with the whole house and generation, he shall have nothing but fair play."
In the deserted houses and the church a fair supply of gold and silver spoil was found, and what was equally welcome, an abundant addition to their scanty store of provisions.
It is not long before the pupil can make a full left-hand turn; and then he goes on to perfect himself in this movement, flying alone now, and repeating the turn till he feels he can make it with confidence, and at a fair height. And now he comes to his final evolutions. Having mastered the left-hand turn, he proceeds to make one to the right.
Have a care, my fair boy, that flagon is too heavy to be lifted safely by such small hands as thine, and its contents too precious to be wasted. Soh! that’s well done; thou’lt prove a second Ganymede! Health, Julia, and good dreams—may all fair things attend thee, until we meet again."
And now I must record an experience so strange, that I think it only fair, before beginning to relate it, to release my much-enduring reader from any obligation he may feel to believe this part of my story. I would not have believed it, I freely confess, if I had not seen it with my own eyes: then why should I expect it of my reader, who, quite possibly, has never seen anything of the sort?
I knew that he loved you, and that you loved him; and I vowed I would keep away and let his suit prosper if it might. I appeal to you, fair mistress, to say how that vow has been kept." "I have certainly seen naught of you these past years," answered Joan. "But I myself have been a wanderer." "Had you not been, my vow would have been as sacredly kept," was the quick reply.
A. I am not; I have heard that in several counties the land-owners have met in order to establish a uniform rate of wages, but I never heard, nor do I know of any combination to keep down wages or establish any rule which they did not think fair; the means of paying wages in Virginia are very limited now, and there is a difference of opinion as to how much each person is able to pay.
In fact, Akim or Akim Semyonitch as he was called even in his mistress's house, to which he often went and invariably on Sundays after mass would have been excellent in all respects if he had not had one weakness which has been the ruin of many men on earth, and was in the end the ruin of him, too a weakness for the fair sex.
He had already caused the death of many a man without the least compunction, but that had been done either in fair fight, or openly before the world. He was king, and what the king did was right.
That was a fair piece of news now, and Olive had her bonnet on five minutes after Susan was gone, and was on her way to Bathsheba's, it was too bad that the poor girl who lived so out of the world shouldn't know anything of what was going on in it.
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