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Van Ness was mayor of the city. Politics had become a regular and profitable business, and politicians were more than suspected of being corrupt.
I suppose they were going to grade it, which is the favourite American term a term, by the by, by no manner or method meaning gradus ad Parnassum, or even laying it out in steps and stairs, like the Scotch military road near Loch Ness; but which, as far as my limited information in Webster's Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon tongue goes, signifies levelling.
All thy waves and thy billows have gone over me. Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into utter dark ness." Yet through it all what grateful joy in God, what expressions of living faith and devotion!
It was well that the shrewd boy had caused Omar to repeat his promise before a witness, and before so highly esteemed a wit ness, for the fisherman would have otherwise refused, in all probability, to share the harvest of his nets with Mohammed. He was now compelled to yield to the decision of the fishermen, who declared that the half of the fish caught were worth at least four ducats.
And after a while the birds began to gather at Allfowlsness, in thousands and tens of thousands, blackening all the air; swans and brant geese, harlequins and eiders, harolds and garganeys, smews and goosanders, divers and loons, grebes and dovekies, auks and razor-bills, gannets and petrels, skuas and terns, with gulls beyond all naming or numbering; and they paddled and washed and splashed and combed and brushed themselves on the sand, till the shore was white with feathers; and they quacked and clucked and gabbled and chattered and screamed and whooped as they talked over matters with their friends, and settled where they were to go and breed that summer, till you might have heard them ten miles off; and lucky it was for them that there was no one to hear them but the old keeper, who lived all alone upon the Ness, in a turf hut thatched with heather and fringed round with great stones slung across the roof by bent-ropes, lest the winter gales should blow the hut right away.
"It was all the rascal Dunster's doing, I've no doubt," said he, trying to account for the entire loss of Mr. Wilkins's fortune. To his surprise she lifted up her white stony face, and said slowly and faintly, but with almost solemn calmness: "Mr. Ness, you must never allow Mr. Dunster to be blamed for this!" "My dear Ellinor, there can be no doubt about it.
But carry me first to that headland which seemed to me to promise so pleasant a dwelling-place, and lay me there. Thus it shall be seen that I spoke truth when I wished to abide there. And ye shall place a cross at my feet, and another at my head, and call it Cross Ness ever after." So Thorvald died. Then his companions buried him as he had bidden them in the land which had seemed to him so fair.
Pendleton was to let him know when it would be convenient." Remarks on the letter of June 27, 1804, which Mr. Van Ness declined to receive.
It did not reach there for thirteen hours. I think I succeeded in quieting them, at least for a time. When I arrived at Sacramento Street and Van Ness Avenue I saw a woman tugging at a trunk which had caught on the car-track, and I helped her release it.
But he answered: "Wait a little; let us first make sure that it is a lie, and if you do not see it, you may kill me." And again they asked: "Where is it?" "Yes ... where was it now ... over there beyond that little ness." And now they had almost reached the base of that great fjord, and again they rounded a little ness farther in, and there was nothing to be seen.
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