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Great deal boxes were constantly being unpacked in front of Mr Boone's door, much to the annoyance of Miss Tippet, who could not imagine how it happened that her sedate and slow-going landlord had got such a sudden increase of business. Little did she think, poor lady, that this was the fuel with which it was intended to roast her alive!
Miss Haredale is Mr Geoffrey Haredale's niece. 'Is her father alive? said the man, carelessly. 'No, rejoined the landlord, 'he is not alive, and he is not dead 'Not dead! cried the other. 'Not dead in a common sort of way, said the landlord.
"We can't be certain till we see him," answered the Sergeant. "See him?" echoed the landlord. "That's the one thing that nobody has been able to do since seven o'clock this morning. That was the time when he left word, last night, that he was to be called. He WAS called and there was no getting an answer from him, and no opening his door to see what was the matter.
I gave him the preface and the preliminary matter at once, and chose the paper and the size, large octavo. When I got back to my inn the landlord told me that the bargello, or chief constable, wanted to see me. Although Lugano is in Switzerland, its municipal government is modelled after that of the Italian towns.
Then, moreover, there was that English family, between whom and ourselves there was the reluctance and antipathy, personal and national, which exists between all right-minded Englishmen and Americans. No Italian can understand this just and natural condition, and it was the constant aim of our landlord to make us acquainted.
"That's a tie," commented the landlord from behind his immense beard; "and therefore the question ain't settled." "It's easy 'nough to settle it," said Ike Hoe. "How?" "Take another vote." "I don't see how that'll do it, onless some one changes his mind; but again, gentlemen: all who favor the new name, raise their right hands."
"Irregularities such as these were bound sooner or later to come to the ears and eyes of Mr. Allman, the landlord of the Rubens Studios; and a month after the New Year, without further warning, he gave her a week's notice to quit his house. "'Mrs. Owen did not seem the least bit upset when I gave her notice, Mr.
There is no such relation as that of landlord and tenant as regards agricultural holdings. Every male citizen of New York may vote who is twenty-one, who has been a citizen for ten days, who has lived in the State for a year, and for four months in the county in which he votes. He can vote for all "officers that now are, or hereafter may be, elective by the people." Art, II. Sec. 1.
In a few minutes the landlord had caught and saddled two horses, and riding one, and leading the other, he went off to the new shaft, where the spare horse was mounted by one of the men working there. Then Ah San turned to the sick man, and said interrogatively "You have fever?"
The landlord was enjoying a cigar and a glass of whiskey and water, and he opened the door still wider and gave a respectful smile of welcome. "You have a very comfortable hotel here, Mr. Groves," said Stafford, by way of opening the conversation. "We have had a capital dinner, and have enjoyed it tremendously; was that '72 port you gave us?" "Yes, sir," replied Mr. Groves, much gratified.
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