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Whatsoever thou biddest us, that will we do. Quoth I, 'Bind the Marid who brought the damsel hither from her home. Quoth they, 'We hear and obey, and off they flew and bound that Marid in straitest bonds and returned after a while, saying, 'We have done thy bidding. Then I dismissed them and, repairing to my wife, told her what had happened and said to her, 'O my bride, wilt thou go with me? 'Yes, answered she.
He moved his head affirmatively; then, when he was able to speak, he confessed that he must have a hundred thousand francs for the day after the morrow, and that he did not know how to obtain them. She did not reproach him. She was one of those women who, when face to face with disaster, think only of repairing it, without a word of recrimination.
And Atreya, thus addressed by the king, returned and told his preceptor all that had happened, and hearing this sad intelligence, Vamadeva's heart was filled with wrath, and repairing in person to the king he asked him for his steeds, and the king refused to give the Rishi what the latter asked, and Vamadeva said, "O lord of earth, give me thou my Vami horses.
Now this was said in all the true spirit of human kindness; he knew that I was not born in Paris, and conceiving that I might feel the bitterness of that misfortune, though it might afford me a degree of consolation to be assured, that there were some means of repairing the disadvantages under which I laboured, from not having made my entrance to the world in the grand metropolis of France.
"I'm coming out finely on the deal." "We won't let it go at that, if you please, sir," Dick Prescott retorted firmly. Dick placed a ten dollar bill on the desk, adding: "That makes the full thirty dollars for the repairing of the canoe." "I don't want to take it," said Driggs gruffly.
He subsequently purchased a home in Greenock and settled there, becoming one of its first citizens. Before his death he had established a considerable business in odds and ends, such as repairing and provisioning ships; repairing instruments of navigation, compasses, quadrants, etc., always receiving special attention at his hands.
She was proud by nature, and even her policy could not always temper her expressions of displeasure, although few were more ready at repairing any false step of this kind, when her prudence came up to the aid of her passions.
The sea continued to go down, and the wind to slacken, until the afternoon, when the Commodore made the signal for Torch to send, a boat's crew, the instant it could be done with safety, on board the dismasted ship, to assist in repairing damages, and in getting up a jury fore topmast.
De Loche; but he was sure that his neighbor would know it and would give information of my presence, and this made my stay unpleasant to him after the call of Dr. Smith. I have stated that a detachment of troops was engaged in guarding workmen who were repairing the railroad east of Memphis.
There are, however, two episodes in which he was so distinctly the central figure that they demand at least a brief narration. In January, 1796, while his ship was repairing, a large East Indiaman, the Dutton, carrying some six hundred troops and passengers, was by a series of mishaps driven ashore on the beach of Plymouth, then an unprotected sound.
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