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Ebony looked at them, bestowed on them a tremendous grin, and went down with the oily ease of a northern seal! When next seen he was full a hundred yards astern of the boat, still heading steadily for the shore. "Let him go!" shouted the captain. "Ay, ay, sir," replied the obedient officer. And Ebony went!
"'Permit me to add in conclusion that I have that confidence in your ability and patriotism which will lead you to accede to this request. "'I am, with great respect, your most obedient servant, "'Major-General, U. S. V., "'United States Military Governor in the Philippines. "In reply to which, on the 16th, the following was received: "'Malolos, Bulacan, September 16, 1898.
May I hope, my dear madam, that at the first opportunity you will apprise me of ensuing events in this connection, and that in any event I may still faithfully serve you? "With kindest personal remembrances and my polite salutations to the distinguished author whose wife you have the honour to be, I am, my dear madam, "Yr. most respectful and obedient servant, "Jeremiah Bradford.
I got down on my knees, to ask that help which is as willingly given to a child in her troubles as to the general of an army. I prayed that I might be patient and obedient and take disagreeable things pleasantly and do my duty in the multiplication table.
I remain, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, "The premium which should have been paid under ordinary circumstances," said the Secretary, "was due six weeks ago. The policy has therefore expired." "It is a characteristic letter," said the lawyer. "Lord Harry was born to be a trouble to his family. There has never been a time, so far as I remember, when he was not a trouble and a disgrace.
She assisted her aunt in the household work and the dairy; and it was her business to take charge of the children, whom she carefully instructed in such things as she knew, and laboured to render them virtuous and obedient. Philip, her brother, who was about a year older than herself, had been unfortunately a spoiled child.
Your most obedient, and very much afflicted, humble servant, The late Rev. One day, when he got into the stage to come to London, he met with two ladies of his acquaintance, and a loquacious young Irishman, who was very obtrusive with his "would-be wit" to the females. The coachman soon stopped to take up another passenger, who, Dutchman-like, was "slow to make haste."
I have the honour to be, with the greatest regard, Your lordship's most faithful and obedient humble servant, JAS. SAUMAREZ. The Right Hon. Earl Spencer, &c. &c. &c. I have to acknowledge your letter of the 20th instant, and am much obliged to you for the hint contained in it. You must be aware how delicate a matter it is for me to interfere in a detail of this description.
It was bright as the golden clouds that encircle the throne of the rising sun as the golden clouds when they are dipped in silver. Her father held counsel with spirits of evil. They were obedient to his will. He invoked them to endue his daughter with more than mortal beauty, that she might inflame the soul of princes, and sit upon their throne. Such was the tale of men.
The Spanish Netherlands were almost entirely shut off from the sea, the rivers Scheldt and Meuse being hardly navigable for them on account of the control of those waters by Holland. The Dutch were attracting to their dominions all artisans, navigators, and traders. Despising all other nations and giving them the law, they had ruined the obedient provinces.
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