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On the other hand Lembke was handsome, and she was already over forty. It is remarkable that he fell genuinely in love with her by degrees as he became more used to being betrothed to her. On the morning of his wedding day he sent her a poem. She liked all this very much, even the poem; it's no joke to be forty.
The fleet numbered forty sail, and each ship was manned by some two hundred warriors and seamen. When the men were landed to fight, one third of the company remained behind to guard the ships. Thus the forces that Olaf usually took ashore with him numbered between five and six thousand warriors. The first place at which the vikings landed was at the mouth of a wide vik, leading far inland.
There are no programmes, but, in order that the audience may not be left in doubt as to the identity of the players, the manager introduces the members of his company one by one. "This is Ali Baba," he announces, leading a fat and greasy Oriental to the footlights. "This is Fatimah." "These are the Forty Thieves."
Borne up on roots, or rather walls, of twisted board, some twelve feet high, between which the whole crew, their ammunitions, and provisions, were housed roomily, rose the enormous trunk full forty feet in girth, towering like some tall lighthouse, smooth for a hundred feet, then crowned with boughs, each of which was a stately tree, whose topmost twigs were full two hundred and fifty feet from the ground.
Chopin's portrait by Ary Scheffer, his piano, and his Paris furniture perished, and his papers were believed to be among the lost. But all the while the family was keeping their very existence secret until, after forty years, it was thought proper to give them to the public. M. Karlovicz was entrusted with this honour, and La Revue Musicale of Paris chosen as the medium.
All he knew was that it consisted of an immense lever, forty feet long, laid on a log support and hauled laterally to and fro by horses.
Rouletabille smiled. "How many are there?" "Ten, relieved every six hours." "That makes forty unknown men around your house each day." "Not unknown," she replied. "Police." "Yet, in spite of them, you have had the affair of the bouquet in the general's chamber." "No, there were only three then. It is since the affair of the bouquet that there have been ten." "It hardly matters.
"It does not seem that any portion of the world has a monopoly. The most celebrated are the grotto of Antiparas, in Greece; the Adelsberg caverns in Carniola, and the Mammoth in Kentucky. The latter is the largest in the world, the windings of which extend forty miles and through which is a subterranean river. In the river are eyeless fish, and fish with eyes, but sightless.
Just after her arrival, it was determined that the Archdeacon should leave Durban, where, indeed, he had been only filling the post of an absent clergyman, and take a district on the Umhlali river, forty miles from Durban, containing a number of English settlements, a camp, and a large amount of Kaffir kraals.
The upper gallery which encircles the inner sweep of the dome is two hundred and forty feet above the floor of the church very few steeples in America could reach up to it. Visitors always go up there to look down into the church because one gets the best idea of some of the heights and distances from that point.
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