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"MR. LEIGHTON: Dear Sir Cousin Fanny is to have a picnic down in the west woods to-morrow afternoon, and she requests the pleasure of your presence. Mrs. Meredith and Miss Ruthven are to be invited. Do come. "Yours truly, "LUCY." Yes, he would go, and if Anna's answer had not come before, he would ask her for it. There would be plenty of opportunities down in those deep woods.
It was insinuating, courteous; he orders no more, he humbly requests; he meekly entreats and begs: he begins by saying: "Now in order to prove the good relationship between me and yourself, let it be shown by your writing, and by getting the skilful artisans and Mr. Flad to come via Metemma; This will be the sign of our friendship."
I felt began to feel the pressure on me. There was, at moments, something almost of menace in his requests and suggestions an importunity I did not exactly understand. . . . And then he said something to me " "Go on; what?"
Reconstructed to conform to the canal, the railroad is in operation to-day. 1866 The United States Senate requests the Secretary of the Navy to supply it with all available information upon the feasibility of a canal across the Isthmus. 1867 Nineteen canal and seven railroad projects for the Isthmus region are submitted in the report to the Senate.
The First President spoke very boldly against bringing the King into the House after this manner, to surprise the members and infringe upon their liberty of voting. Next day the Masters of Requests, to whom one of these edicts, confirmed in the King's presence, had added twelve colleagues, met and took a firm resolution not to admit of this new creation.
Then there were singers or performers on wind or string instruments wishing to sing or play before him, sculptors and painters wishing him to visit their studios, and writers of music wishing him to order their compositions to be brought out at the Royal Opera. All these requests culminated in two, wherein the gentle reader will see a mixture of comic and pathetic.
Most of the girls believed that Agony's silence proceeded from the genuine humility of the truly great when singled out for honor, and admired her all the more for her sober, pensive air. She found herself overwhelmed with requests to stand for her picture, and the younger girls thronged her tent, begging for locks of hair to take home as keepsakes.
We do this because our requests during the past six months have had no effect in decreasing the outrages perpetrated upon our members, nor have our requests been granted a fair hearing. Yours respectfully, S. SHINDLER, Secretary. The Mayor thanked the committee for bringing the matter to his attention, and promised to take up the complaint with the Police Commissioner.
"I don't wish to say anything, Miss," he explained; "but, if you have any complaint to make of Amelius, I should take it as a favour if you would look me straight in the face, and mention it plainly." In the embarrassment which troubled Regina at that moment, he had preferred the two requests of all others with which it was most impossible for her to comply.
My patrons clamoured for it repeatedly and a barrister wished me to prepare a flask of it for use in his home. The following day it was again demanded and other requests were made for private supplies, while by the end of the week my relish had become rather famous. Followed a suggestion from Mrs. Judson as she overlooked my preparation of it one day from her own task of polishing the glassware.
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