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The list of those who desired to secede should be made up within ten days after the taking of the oaths in the case of persons already in the country, and their actual departure should take place within twenty days; persons at present out of the country should have the same terms allowed to them after their return.
Her anger choked her like a sob, and she tore with trembling fingers at the papers in her lap. Then suddenly her brow contracted with resolution, and she went through a long list of items as if the most important fact in life were the amount of money she must pay to her dressmaker. "Of course you know what I think," murmured Laura with her lips at Gerty's ear.
The father returned to England to mourn his lost boy, and another disaster was added to the annual list of casualties in the Alps. So far the story was sad enough, but hardly romantic.
It stunned the two men who were nearest where the ball struck, and that was all. I touched the lever the turret revolved as smoothly as before. The turret had stood the test; I could mark that point of weakness off my list forever.
I was anxious to know, but did not dare to ask her, so I told her that although I was not a scholar, I had studied Chinese for some time and could read and write a little, that if she would give me a list I would try and read it. She said: "That is funny, someone told me the first day you were here, I forget now who it was, that you could not read or write your own language at all."
A piercing cry escaped the boy, and he would have fallen had he not been supported by the countess; he looked at her pitying face, and again threw himself at her feet. "Canst thou not, wilt thou not save him?" he cried; "art thou not the daughter of Edward, his favorite, his dearly beloved, and will he not list to thee will he not hear thy pleadings?
Sguazzella, wiser than his master, preferred to stay in Paris under the patronage of Cardinal de Tournon. He painted a great many works, much in the style of Andrea, but with less excellence. It is possible that some of M. Lepiscie's long list are, in fact, the work of the pupil rather than the master.
I will also send a full list of the killed, wounded, and missing, by name, rank, company, and regiment. The enemy captured seven of our guns on Sunday, but on Monday we recovered seven; not the identical guns we had lost, but enough in number to balance the account.
He ordered further that all memorial and other temples that had been erected by the people but which were not recorded in the list of the Board of Rites or of Sacrificial Worship, were to be turned into schools and colleges for the propagation of Western learning, a thought which was quite in harmony with that advocated by Chang Chih-tung.
A list of them, which he gave to Boswell, amounting to seventeen, but without the correspondent dates, is preserved by that writer.
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