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And it happened that, late and early, Pol Bihan now came to the tower, bringing with him the laughing Matheline; for it was rumored that at last Sylvestre Ker would soon find the fairy-stone and become a wealthy man.
Even before Lucretia's new betrothal was settled upon it was rumored in Rome that her former affianced, Don Gasparo, was again pressing his suit and that there was a prospect of his being accepted. Although the young Spaniard failed to accomplish his purpose, Alexander now recognized the fact that Lucretia's betrothal to him had been dissolved illegally.
This Nathaniel Bacon was a newcomer in Virginia young man who had been entered in Gray's Inn, who had traveled, who was rumored to have run through much of his own estate. He had a cousin, also named Nathaniel Bacon, who had come fifteen years earlier to Virginia "a very rich, politic man and childless," and whose representations had perhaps drawn the younger Bacon to Virginia.
"Don't you think it is rather premature, Mr. Sluss, to denounce something which has only a rumored existence?" It is just possible that after you have heard my side you may not be so completely opposed to me. From time to time I have sent to you several of my personal friends, but apparently you do not care to receive them." "Quite true," replied Mr.
Bill won't stand for nothin' of this kind in his district since he got that bid to Esopus." This exhausts the facts concerning the Kali diamond. "It is rumored that a niece of Gen. Marcellus B. Ludlow, of New York City, will appear on the stage next season. "Her diamonds are said to be extremely valuable and of much historic interest." "Hop-along" Bibb kept his bird store on lower Fourth Avenue.
And it fell that one day the city was full of a dreadful uproar, whereas it was rumored that in the afternoon, at the hour when Dame Ursula Giustiniani was wont to fare forth in her gondola, a strange man clad in black had leaped into it from his own and, before the serving-men could lay hands on him, he had stabbed her many times to the heart with his dagger.
Indeed it may be said that the class of women who are least sex-conscious are those who have habitually to sell themselves. It all matters so little then! How fiercely is the interest of the most virtuous aroused, when any question of a love affair is rumored. In this sense every woman is a born "go-between."
Jim Crow was also standard in theaters, restaurants, and hotels in opposition to the 1885 law that had outlawed segregation in public accommodations. Local citizens were afraid that the rumored influx of Negroes would drastically alter the situation. Later investigation showed that the size of the migration had been vastly exaggerated. Tension surrounding the racial and labor conflict in East St.
It was rumored that she had set her affections in another quarter: but her relatives angrily denied this and asserted that once married she would soon become herself again. They were mistaken. From her wedding day, which she celebrated by attending the funeral of a venerable clergyman to whom she had been warmly attached, her health broke rapidly.
This was to prepare for the atonement; nothing else was talked about in the town, the people were converted, and all the women and girls went to confession. It was rumored also that the national property was to be restored, and that the poor men would be separated from the respectable people by the procession, because the beggars would not dare to show themselves.
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