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The first was in the Sterling, off the coast of Portugal; the next was in the William and Jane, outward bound to Canton; the third was on the bank, in the Trio, off the coast of Java; and the fourth, in the Mechanic, on the other side of Cuba. It was not the last of my affairs with them, however, as will be seen in the sequel.
Mr Pisani read it to him in French; he thought it very good, and said it might be done. Having had pipes and coffee, we returned home, being engaged to dine with Lord Ponsonby. We had great difficulty in procuring a carriage to take us, and at last agreed with a man to take Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, and fetch them back, for the sum of £6 sterling. It was a miserable four-horse concern.
She is unhappy; miserable in an ill assorted marriage, with a jealous tyrant who now would constrain her to sell her diamonds, which are " "Worth thirty thousand pounds sterling. I heard all that from a friend. Can I aid the Countess in her unequal struggle? Say but how the greater the danger or the sacrifice, the happier will it make me. Can I aid her?"
Hence, not only his set biographies, as of Schiller and of Sterling, but the shorter notices in his Essays, are intrinsically more complete and throw more real light on character than whole volumes of ordinary memoirs. With the limitations above referred to, and in view of his antecedents, the range of Carlyle's critical appreciation is wonderfully wide.
And so that one flag brought three hundred pounds sterling to the soldiers. I wonder did those folk at Christchurch think I would keep the money and make a profit on that flag? Had it been another time I'd have stayed in New Zealand gladly a long time. It was a friendly place, and it gave us many a new friend. But home was calling me.
Though he had been opposed to the Reform Bill and many other popular measures, he was still loved and respected by the nation for his high sense of duty and his many sterling qualities. The hero of Waterloo was laid beside the hero of Trafalgar in St Paul's Cathedral.
He is a sterling man. There's foul work here which extends beyond your father's case. But we are wasting time. Why don't you introduce me to your physician? Just tell him about Cronin, and that you have confided in me completely." Van Cleft went upstairs without a word.
Robert I., of Scotland, in 1326 or four years afterward, gave L2,000 sterling to rebuild it; and Edward II., of England, came from New Castle at Christmas, 1341, and held his yule in the abbey, and made restitution of the lands and other property which his father had seized during the late war.
If she needs a doctor she shall have one. So let me know if the pain comes on again." Miss Sterling had been abed an hour or more when she was awakened by a gentle rap. Mrs. Albright softly opened the door. "She's worse than ever; but Miss Sniffen won't hear to calling the doctor.
"And to think I have had boys, actually young life here in this room." Mrs. Sterling raised herself suddenly to rest on one elbow. "Mistress mistress," implored the alarmed Gibson, with restraining hands, "you'll hurt yourself." "No, I shan't," protested Mrs.
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