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Sir James Porter was British ambassador at the Porte; his work is faithful and accurate, and is chiefly illustrative of the political state, manners, and habits of the Turks. Eton's Survey of the Turkish Empire. 1801. 8vo.
The Times was silent, but four days later The Thunderer, seeing how the wind blew, came out with a column of eulogy, and from this onward, each evening proved a kind of ovation. Seats were engaged for a week in advance. Up and down Piccadilly, from St. James Church to St.
One day the Captain was talking over his plans with Stephen. "When I get to London, as soon as I have discharged my cargo and secured another freight, one of the first things I shall have to do will be to present myself to King James and see what notice he is inclined to take of the King of Spain's recommendation." "To King James!" exclaimed Stephen.
At eight years of age he was sent to a grammar school, and at ten he was taken from it to assist his father in soap-boiling; but, showing a repugnance to this sort of business, he was apprenticed to his brother James at the age of twelve, to learn the art, or trade, of a printer.
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"Well?" he was asked; and lifted his stock up. "Impossible," he said. "Why impossible?" James asked Urquhart, having none of the language, but guessing at the word. Urquhart and the man talked; the latter was eloquent. "He says," Urquhart told them, "that there's a great cornice, and a drop of forty feet or so. Then he thinks there's another; but he's not sure of that. He intends to go back.
He now, therefore, gave a speedy turn to the conversation, and began to talk of affairs below the dignity of this history. Containing a very polite scene. We will now look back to some personages who, though not the principal characters in this history, have yet made too considerable a figure in it to be abruptly dropt: and these are Colonel James and his lady.
But next morning when she went in the nurse whispered: "He won't have his temperature taken." Emily crossed to the side of the bed where he was lying, and said softly, "How do you feel, James?" holding the thermometer to his lips. James looked up at her. "What's the good of that?" he murmured huskily; "I don't want to know." Then she was alarmed.
She requested that somebody would call from our office at a certain address, between the hours of two and four that afternoon, in reference to the advertisement which we had inserted in the newspapers. Of course, I was the somebody who went. I kept myself from building up hopes by the way, knowing what a lot of Mr. James Smiths there were in London.
"Say, what you goin' to do when you get there?" he asked. "Fetch my wife back," replied Scipio earnestly. "What'll James be doin'?" "He can't keep her she's mine." "That's so. But if he notions to keep her?" Scipio was silent for some moments. His pale eyes were staring straight ahead of him out into the growing darkness.
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