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This towne is the farthest eastwarde which the kinge hath on the north side of India. It is environed with their enemyes, viz., the Indyans and Caribes. The victualls come from this towne to Margarita. The next towne westwarde is Carakas, which is very riche of golde.
"Dans le service de la Suisse Le militaire n'est pas riche." These passionate lines of a political exile: "A l'étranger un pacte impie Vendait mon sang, liait ma foi, Mais
The "antimonial cup," a drinking vessel made of that metal, which, like our quassia-wood cups, might be filled and emptied in saecula saeculorum without exhausting its virtues, is mentioned by Matthew Cradock, in a letter to the elder Winthrop, but in a doubtful way, as it was thought, he says, to have shortened the days of Sir Nathaniel Riche; and Winthrop himself, as I think, refers to its use, calling it simply "the cup."
He wrote them to the Cafe Americain, to Bignon's, to Tortoni's, to the Maison Doree, to the Cafe Riche, to the Helder, to the Cafe Anglais, to the Napolitain, everywhere, everywhere. He wrote them to all the officials of the republican government, from the magistrates to the ministers. And he was happy, perfectly happy. One morning as he was starting out to go to the council it began to rain.
Neither personal attractions nor mental qualifications formed a passport into that exclusive society; to enter which the small nobility of the provinces, or the nouveau riche, sighed in vain. It would have been easier for a young Guardsman to make his way into the Convent des Oiseaux the fashionable convent in Paris than for any of these parvenus to force an entrance into the Faubourg St. Germain.
The third was a rogue who had been banished from Jersey for a habitual drunkenness which only attacked him on land at sea he was sacredly sober. His name was Jean Nicolle. The names of the other two were Herve Robin and Rouge le Riche, but their master called them by other names. "Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego," said Buonespoir in ceremony, and waved a hand of homage between them and Angele.
She's swell dress', too. She's name' Marie Bourgette." "Oh, I've heard about her," said Necia. "She owns a claim on Bonanza Creek." "Sure, she's frien's wit' Charlie McCormack, dat riche feller, but I don' know it dis tam', so I ask her for dance wit' me. Den we drink a bottle of champagne twenty dollar." "'Mamselle, I say, 'how much you charge for sell me dat dress?"
"Ay," replied my new acquaintance, "but he preferred them expressly to 'robes riche, or fidel or sautrie, whereas, I prefer them to men and women, and to Aristotle and his philosophy, into the bargain!" "Your own philosophy, at least, is admirable," said I. "For many a year I might almost say for most years of my life I have been a disciple in the same school."
He lunched at his hotel, gave orders that if any one brought a letter or message for Senor Perez Cuesta they should receive it, and went again to the Rue de Provence, where he said he had had the good luck to find his cheque. With all these goings and comings it got to be three o'clock, and Caesar turned his steps toward the Cafe Riche. Yarza was there and the two talked a long while.
The manner, custome, housholding, childbearing, sporting and cleanlinesse of the women in Bantam. The women of the towne are well kept from such as are circumcised, whereof the riche men haue many, and from other men or their friendes, for their owne sonnes may not come into the house where the women are.
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