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One afternoon, about four o'clock, two persons, a lady and gentleman on horseback, rode up into the courtyard of the chateau. Julien, greatly excited, ran up to Jeanne's room. "Quick, quick, come downstairs; here are the Fourvilles. They have just come as neighbors, knowing your condition. Tell them that I have gone out, but that I will be back. I will just go and make myself presentable."
But for a few communities in the world that individual club has become a national armory, with human energies perfecting the most destructive machinery of warfare, that aggression may be carried on against neighbors, and territory expanded for purposes of national government and the increment of national wealth.
"I don't propose to have no bill of expense run up on me," announced Mrs. Crymble, "I've paid out for him all I'm goin' to, and I got done long ago." "Bereaved and lovin' widder heard, neighbors and friends," said the Cap'n, significantly. "Now go ahead, people, and believe what she says about us, if you want to! Get to work here." "You sha'n't stir a shovelful of that dirt," declared Mrs.
And I pictured her funeral to myself, and watched her carried away at last by the narrow road that wound among the trees; and there was nobody left in the house after the neighbors from the nearest farms had put it to rights, and had looked over her treasures to their hearts' content.
All evidence for the defence, even the New Hampshire charter, was ruled out of court, and Ethan Allen's peaceful efforts for defence were defeated. He returned home, burning with indignation and resolving to protect his property and that of his neighbors, if need were, by the force of his own strong right arm.
A number of budmashes were bringing bundles of bamboos from a basket- maker's shop opposite; some of the crowd were opposing them. "They are going to fire the house," Dick exclaimed. "The people opposing are the neighbors, no doubt. They'll do it, though," he added, as the fiercer spirits drove the others back. "What's best to be done, Ned?" Ned looked round, and then up.
True to her promise, Rose helped Edith all the next day, and while she worked, the frank-hearted girl poured out the story of her troubles, and Edith came to have a greater respect and sympathy for her "kind and humble neighbors" as she characterized them in her own mind.
A battle is by possibility the grandest, and also the meanest, of human exploits. This is the principle upon which, very naturally, our British school-boys value a battle. Painful it is to add, that this is the principle upon which our adult neighbors the French seem to value a battle.
"I might have known it. Gunmen are all cowards." He sighed. "You can be the most irritating young lady I ever met. And why? What have I ever done to you besides save you from drowning? Since we are neighbors, why not be good friends? By the way, where do you carry your gun?" "It's different with a girl," she said bluntly. "There's some excuse for her.
Whatever might or might not have been the reason, it is certain that in his time one after another of his neighbors was ruined, and Janus went round and took over their holdings. If he needed another horse, he played for and won it at loo; and it was the same with everything.
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