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"'Nonsense, replied the Mayor. 'He is a very honest man and I will vouch for him. "Then the Mayor called his brother aside and told him why the man with the saddle had come to see the horse. "Tip-Top talked with the men who had been set to guard the horse, and he soon found that one of them was an accomplice of the thief. This man made a swift sign to Tip-Top, and placed his finger on his mouth.
The market, which is held on the Saturday, is well supplied with fruits, vegetables, and fish, salmon included, taken from the river Lune. LANCASTER, twenty miles northward, is also a borough town, returning two members to Parliament, and is governed by a mayor and town council.
MY DEAR FRIEND: I received your letter this morning, and return you the ball 'a la volee'. The King's speech is a very prudent one; and as I suppose that the addresses in answer to it were, as usual, in almost the same words, my Lord Mayor might very well call them innocent.
"And thou art fit to be a king." "And what if I cannot pay it?" "We shall feel it our unpleasant duty to hand thee over to the royal justice, as one notoriously in league with the rebel barons." "May I send a messenger to my castle?" "At once. I will place my household at thy disposal." "And the friar and the mayor; does my ransom include their freedom?"
Not a speck defiled their high polish; the very dust and mud which introduces itself cosily into the habiliments of your common, warm hearted men, seemed to shrink away chilled and repulsed by the immaculate coldness that clung like an atmosphere around the Mayor of New York.
Examination of the record reveals no instance in which Cleveland flinched from doing his duty or faltered in the full performance of it. He acted throughout in his avowed capacity of a public trustee, and he conducted the office of governor with the same laborious fidelity which he had displayed as sheriff and as mayor.
On the following Monday and Tuesday he had again to attend the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress in state to receive the Blue Coat boys at the Mansion House, then to be present at a sermon at the Hospital, and to return and dine with the Lord Mayor, the Aldermen, &c., it being Easter Monday, a public day. They were also expected on the following morning again to breakfast at the Mansion House.
"Your oath be hanged," said I. "You must give the gold to the Mayor, who knows that it was coming, and it will appear to the world, as though he were giving it you now instead of leaving you anything." "But it is ever so much too much!" "It is not half enough. You and the Mayor must settle all that between you. He and our father talked it all over, and this was what they settled."
"Certainly, you are right, Aunt Grédel," I would say; "but for all that we cannot be married without going to the mayor without a permit and if we do not go to the mayor, the priest will not dare to marry us at the church." Then aunt would be very grave, and always ended by saying: "You see, Joseph, that all those people from first to last have fixed everything to suit themselves.
Now I want you to brush up your ideas about everything, so you can answer the endless questions I am going to ask you." "Why bless you, child, you take away my breath. Rome wasn't built in a day." "The way they built Rome will never answer for me. I must grow like one of our Western cities that has a mayor and opera-house almost before the Indians and wolves are driven out of town.
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