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For not presenting their minister when he neglected to catechise on the Sabbath, the wardens of St. Mary Woolchurch Haw, London, had to pay divers fees to the chancellor. Brooke and Hallen, Registers of St. Mary Woolchurch Haw , Wardens Acc'ts, s.a. 1593.

No fees or money can repay the dear man. Tehran is the most primitive place! You can't, for instance, get one scrap of flannel, and if a bit of bacon comes into the town there is a stampede for it. People get their wine from England in two-bottle parcels. Yours as ever, S. Tehran. April. The days pass peacefully and even quickly, which is odd, for they are singularly idle.

Marie began to suspect that his friend was being imposed upon. He determined to warn Stewart that his agents were earning their fees too easily. So he returned to Paris more than a little dejected, and sore over this waste of time and effort. He arrived by a noon train, and drove across the city in a fiacre to the rue d'Assas.

"I suppose you want something handsome, Hugh," he said, looking at me over his cigarette, "something commensurate with these fees I hear you are getting." "Well, I want to be comfortable," I admitted. We lunched at the Club together, where we talked over the requirements. When he came to dinner the next week and spread out his sketch on the living-room table Maude drew in her breath.

He shook it, and money rattled; then he unlocked it, and poured out a little pile of silver. "There," said he, "put on your bonnet, and come and buy those things." She put on her bonnet, and on the way she asked how it came to be all in silver. "That is a puzzler," said he, "isn't it?" "And how did you make it, dear? by writing?" "No." "By fees from the poor people?" "What, undersell my brethren!

You may take my word for that. `Sir George, I said, when Sir George asked me `Sir George, I have been here forty years, and if you will agree not to ask for your fees till my tower tumbles down, why, I shall be very glad. Ha, ha, ha! how Sir George enjoyed that joke! Ha, ha, ha!"

But, however, as ye do seem to be a chap by common, though my wife says I lose by my good-nature, if ye gie me an order for my fees upon that money I dare say Glossin will make it forthcoming l ken something about an escape from Ellangowan ay, ay, he'll be glad to carry me through, and be neighbour-like."

Baptiste slammed the door after him; then, addressing the man in the top-boots: "Everything is paid to Valence, isn't it, relays and fees?" he asked. "Everything; do you want a receipt?" replied the postilion, jokingly. "No; but my master, the Marquise de Ribier, don't want to be disturbed until he gets to Valence."

He exercised a wide control over public funds and had authority to organize and command militia and constabulary and to call for Federal troops. The numerous administrative boards worked with the sole object of keeping their party in power. Officers were several times as numerous as under the old regime, and all of them received higher salaries and larger contingent fees.

We should venerate their memory, and foster a love of country as deep and abiding as theirs. In order further to encourage the growth of population, and induce other settlers to come into the country, two hundred acres of land were allowed, upon condition of actual settlement, and the payment of surveying and office fees, which amounted in all to about thirty-eight dollars.