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The Bishop of Winchester was again suspended, and other bishops with him; several abbots were deposed; and Gilbert Foliot, a decided partisan of Matilda's, was designated Bishop of Hereford. The pope was with difficulty persuaded to postpone the excommunication of Stephen himself, and steps were actually taken to reopen before the Roman court the question of his right to the throne.

'O' course I'm right, she asserted, throwing a triumphant glance at me as she retired. 'These tactics may be all very well for the lower classes, I said to Marion when we were alone, 'but I'm not quite sure whether they'd answer in every case. No, Marion dear, if William wants to postpone the wedding, it must be done. Her face fell at once, and she looked so dejected I felt troubled.

"I don't understand at all." "I had a mast put in, and a sail rigged up, two or three days since," said John, compelled at last to explain. "Why did you do this without my permission?" demanded the squire angrily. "Perhaps," said Mr. Morton quietly, "it will be better to postpone inquiries until your son has changed his clothes."

If not, I should perhaps postpone giving twenty-one years' leases till matters look a little more propitious to the payment of rents. 'Lord Lorton wrote yesterday to his agent to make all the freeholders he can on his small Queen's County property. He says he is sorry he can't make more than twenty, but that those shall go against Pole.

He was not afraid of Belle; no real Lorrigan was ever afraid of anything, as fear is usually defined. But he wanted to postpone for a time her reckoning with him. He wanted to face her when he had a free mind, when she had slept well, when her temper was not so edgy. He wanted other things, however, and he proceeded to get those things with the least effort and delay. He wanted soft cloths.

There on the Roman 4th of September, 586, or on the 22nd of June of the Julian calendar an eclipse of the moon, which a scientific Roman officer announced beforehand to the army that it might not be regarded as a bad omen, affords in this case the means of determining the date the outposts accidentally fell into conflict as they were watering their horses after midday; and both sides determined at once to give the battle, which it was originally intended to postpone till the following day.

Being advised to postpone the execution of this plan and to employ less severe measures meanwhile, he issued the Exportation Law of 1843, ordering the expulsion of Jews from the fifty-vyerst boundary zone and from the villages within the Pale, thereby depriving fifty thousand families at once of their homes and their support.

Warburton yet?" asked Sherwood nervously. "Not yet," muttered Will. "I wish you could postpone it a little longer. Could you do you think without too much strain of conscience? Doesn't it seem a pity when any day may enable me to put things right?" Will muttered again that he would think of it; that assuredly he preferred not to disclose the matter if it could decently be kept secret.

"If my aunt will only say that she will keep the house for a couple of years, she shall have it," said Fred to the young lady, perhaps wishing to postpone for so long a time the embarrassment of the large domain; but to this Lady Scroope would not consent. If allowed she would remain till the end of July. By that time she would find herself a home.

When the wind abated, Captain Fitzgerald found himself so far from the scene of his recent visit, and so pressed for time, as well as with the claims of other duties possibly, according to Ebony, the capturing and hanging of other pirates that he resolved to postpone his visit until a more convenient season. The convenient season never came.