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The ex-Chancellor's caustic but mistaken criticism was punished by the calculated neglect of the Berlin authorities to invite him to the ceremonies attending the celebration of the ninetieth birthday of his old comrade, General von Moltke, in October, 1890, and that of his funeral in the following April: still more publicly punished in connexion with the marriage of his son Herbert.
The men, without waiting for orders, but without disorder, moved obliquely to the right, to reach the protection of lower ground, which there led up to the works. This called forth such violent protest and condemnation from Colonel Carle, that the result was a serious mutiny in the One Hundred and Ninetieth.
"It sounded as if I meant that, but you know me!" he laughed back. "Lord, how I'd like to show you New York. Wouldn't you love it! Broadway well, it's a wonder! There's something doing every minute. You'd love the theatres " "I know I would!" Martie assented, glowing. "My aunt lives there; she has an apartment right on the Park, at West Ninetieth," Rodney said.
Momeby was equipped with that merciless faculty which finds as much joy in the ninetieth time of telling as in the first. "Arnold had just come in; he was complaining of rheumatism " "There are so many things to complain of in this household that it would never have occurred to me to complain of rheumatism," murmured Clovis. "He was complaining of rheumatism," continued Mrs.
In the Second Division, the Maryland Brigade was on the left, ours on the right, and Winthrop's in reserve. The One Hundred and Ninety-first, including the fragment of the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh, and the Fourth Delaware, were the first line of battle, under Colonel Pattee. The One Hundred and Ninetieth was ordered forward to skirmish.
When Jenny came back a few minutes later, to her utter astonishment she saw the mysterious fat lady dealing cards to her aunt and talking of events past, present, and future; and her aunt chatting as pleasantly as if she had known the woman all her life. "However can you tell that?" asked Miss Husted as she sipped her tea and cut the cards for the ninetieth time. "Don't you see the king?
'And then, said the old beau garcon, 'although for six times three hundred and sixty-five days your swain has placed the capuchin round your neck, and the stove under your feet, and driven your little sledge upon the ice in winter, and your cabriole through the dust in summer, you may dismiss him at once, without reason or apology, upon the two thousand one hundred and ninetieth day, which, according to my hasty calculation, and without reckoning leap-years, will complete the cycle of the supposed adoration, and that without your amiable feelings having the slightest occasion to be alarmed for the consequences to those of Mynheer.
"Quick, Bildad," said Peleg, his partner, who, aghast at the close vicinity of the flying harpoon, had retreated towards the cabin gangway. "Quick, I say, you Bildad, and get the ship's papers. We must have Hedgehog there, I mean Quohog, in one of our boats. Look ye, Quohog, we'll give ye the ninetieth lay, and that's more than ever was given a harpooneer yet out of Nantucket."
Jacob could very well afford to wait that time; for he was not over what we call `middle-age' when he married; and was, most likely, in the flower of his youth on his ninetieth birthday!
He remembered, to his ninetieth year, the substance of the conversation which passed between him and one of the partners in this business. "Have you room for an apprentice?" asked Peter. "Do you know anything about the business?" was the rejoinder. The lad was obliged to answer that he did not. "Have you been brought up to work?" He replied by giving a brief history of his previous life.
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