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The 'mate' settles all disputes, presents all grievances to the sahib, and all orders are given through him. The indigo stubble which has been left in the ground is perhaps about a foot high, and as they cut it out, their wives and children come to gather up the sticks for fuel, and this of course also helps to clean the land.

What does Drummond say? You ought to ask him." "I have. He says he was alone." "Well, that settles it. What an ass you are. If Drummond doesn't know, who does?" "I believe he's simply hushing it up." "Well, let us hush it up, too. It's no good bothering about it. We licked them all right." "But it's such a beastly thing for the house." "Then why the dickens do you want it to get about?

I have also received a letter from B. Lundy, who speaks very flatteringly of the Settlement; but gives me some information relating to Lewis, which will injure you, unless you act wisely. Now I suggest for your consideration, whether it would not be best to keep perfectly quiet relative to him, until after he returns and settles with the directors.

Many a shrewd fellow has marked the progress of an ageing or shabby article of furniture, from the guest-chamber, through the family rooms upward, until it settles for life, or good behavior, in his apartment, and felt a dull pang at heart that he would not confess.

"Do you like Hugh Marshall better?" "I do not like either of them in the way you mean." "Do you like Hugh better? Answer me." "Mamma " "No, answer me. A plain answer. Do you like Hugh better?" "A great deal better; but " "That settles it," said mamma. "You shall be Hugh Marshall's wife. Don't tell me a word against it, Daisy, for I will not hear you.

He settles all the differences among the people, like the judge here, and is treated with very great respect. He took care to give us timely notice before he came to our habitation, by sending his stick as a token, for rum, sugar, and gunpowder, which we did not refuse sending; and at the same time we made the utmost preparation to receive his honour and his train.

Not all churches are alike, but I am speaking of something that must have happened to many men. I but record this blank space on this page, as a spiritual fact, as a part of the religious experience of a man trying to be good. When this little experience of which the words have to be crossed out after going to Church finally settles down, there is still a grim truth left in it.

Heath and Webster, under the eye of the Challoners' own physician, have made an examination of the wound an official one, thorough and quite final so far as they are concerned, and they declare that no bullet is to be found in the body. As the wound extends no further than the heart, this settles one great point, at least." "Dr. Heath is a reliable man and one of our ablest coroners." "Yes.

There are hundreds of young men in the government offices ready to join, if we do but succeed at first. It all depends on that. The first hour settles the fate of a revolution." "If we succeed, yes the cowardly world will always side with the conquering party; and we shall have every pickpocket and ruffian in our wake, plundering in the name of liberty and order."

"That settles the hay," he exclaimed, and raced for the stacks knowing all the while that he could do nothing, and yet panting in his hurry to reach the spot. Michael, trampling uneasily in the corral, lifted his head and neighed shrilly as Kent passed him on the run. Michael had watched fearfully the fire sweeping down upon him, and his fear had troubled Val not a little.