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You used to see 'em around when you were a boy. They usually coughed and wheezed, and every time they did it, the family used to get ready to send for the undertaker. But they lived on and on. When did your mother die?" "Couple of years ago," said Hastings. "And your father?" "He was killed by a colt he was breaking at sixty-seven." Charlton laughed uproariously.
The great length of the Hastings trial, and especially the participation of Edmund Burke as original accuser and chief manager, have given it an extraneous importance to students of English history and law. The Articles of Impeachment, drawn by Mr. Burke, were presented at the bar of the House of Lords in April, 1786. They were so elaborate as to fill a stately octavo volume of five hundred pages.
"I'd be tremendously proud of it. It must be wonderful to be in love." In one of those curious twists of feminine nature, Miss Hastings suddenly felt the glow of a strong, unreserved liking for this strange, candid girl. Selma went on: "But I'm afraid I never shall be. I get no time to think about myself. From rising till bed time my work pushes at me."
I want to get that fellow tied up safely." He raised his voice again. "Davis," he said, "if you don't open that door immediately, I'll break it down." "I wouldn't try it," was Davis' response. "I have appropriated a pair of your revolvers here and I'll have a shot at the first head that I see." This reply threw Lord Hastings into some consternation. He turned to Frank.
Hastings opposed the order of the Company, and on what account he opposed it. On the 1st of September he sent an order to the Nabob, now become his subject, to give up this office to Mahomed Reza Khân: an act which he had before represented as a dethroning of the Nabob.
XI. That the said Hastings, in the acts of injury aforesaid to the Rajah of Benares, did assume and arrogate to himself an illegal authority therein, and did maintain that the acts done in consequence of that measure were not revocable by any subsequent authority, in the following words.
Hastings read the item thoughtfully. Governor Roughton this morning tendered his resignation as Governor of the State of . We understand that it was at once accepted. Numerous arrests have taken place with reference to the great explosion at the Bembridge powder factory. "Looks rather fishy, that," Hastings observed thoughtfully. "I'm sorry for Roughton," Fischer declared.
The two Philhellenes of greatest note who served in Greece during the earlier years of the Revolution were Thomas Gordon and Frank Abney Hastings. Gordon, who attained the rank of general in the army of independence, had the advantage of a long previous and thorough acquaintance with the character of both Turks and Greeks and with the languages that they spoke.
And therefore the resolutions moved and voted in Council by the said Warren Hastings, declaring the offices of General Clavering to be vacant, were not only illegal, inasmuch as the said Warren Hastings had no authority to warrant such a declaration, even on the supposition of the acts of General Clavering being contrary to law, but the said resolutions were further highly culpable and criminal, inasmuch as the said acts done by General Clavering, which were made the pretence of that proceeding, were strictly regular and legal.
Captain Nicholson was already on his feet, ready to go, when the lads re-entered the commander's cabin. "I see it didn't take you long," he observed. "We are very anxious to go, sir," Jack explained. "They are always quick and prompt," said Lord Hastings. "An excellent trait," commended Captain Nicholson. Lord Hastings accompanied Captain Nicholson and the two lads to the rail.
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