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The managing engineer is Glenn H. Newport, who was with Decker in the fatal encounter with Batchoks. The principal post of this area is Dundu, which is about forty miles from the Congo border.

The door suddenly opened, and I fell into the arms of Everson, Wareham's managing clerk. 'Great Scott! said he. 'What is the matter? You've nearly brought the house down! 'Shut the door! I replied. 'Shut the door! 'But what has happened to you? I had seated myself on the stairs, and a full minute went by before I could begin my story. Then I told Everson all that had befallen me.

The signora soon learnt that Mrs Proudie was not yet at the palace, and that the chaplain was managing everything. It was much more in her line to apply to him than to the lady, and she accordingly wrote to him the prettiest little billet in the world.

Go on that way, for a while anyway?" asked his wife. "Oh, by all means, dear! You must take things easy for a while. By degrees you can take just as much or as little as you want, with the managing." "You dear old idiot," the lady said tenderly, "don't worry about that! It will all come about quite naturally and pleasantly." Indeed, it was still a relief to depend heavily upon Justine. Mrs.

But Pégoud still carried his good luck and, managing to steady the craft, sailed away amid a hail of German bullets." Of all the fighting on the western front during the month of August, 1915, the main interest attaches to that carried on in the struggle for the important mountain peaks in the Vosges which dominated German positions in the Alsatian valleys and plain.

"Since these facts are so, which of the two, senators, seems to be in the wrong, Antony, who is managing the forces granted him by us, or Caesar, who is surrounded with such a large band of his own? Antony, who has departed to take up the office committed to him by us, or Brutus, who prevents him from setting foot in the country?

She climbed the long stairs sturdily, managing her breath so that she did not have to stop and rest on the way. She followed the stern Giovanna, unsubdued by the latter's hard and jealous looks, to the door of her master's chamber. She went toward the bed, smiling at the sick man over an armful of white lilacs.

To the third generation belongs the host of women who are to-day filling our college halls, managing the women's clubs, teaching the state schools, and competing with men in every industrial calling. Theirs is the task of completing woman's social and political emancipation, and of educating them to meet their newfound liberties.

"Will you listen to me, fellows?" he said, quietly, stepping forward to occupy the place just vacated by Jack, and managing to whisper to the other in passing: "back me up for all you're worth, and we may win the day!" "Of course we will! You're the scout leader, Paul, and when you hatch up any game it's sure to be worth the powder.

Still less did he concern himself with the movements of his cousin, who once or twice passed him superciliously in her buggy on the road. Again, she met him as one of a cavalcade of riders, mounted on a handsome but ill-tempered mustang, which she was managing with an ill-temper and grace equal to the brute's, to the alternate delight and terror of her cavalier.