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That chance never occurred again, as far as I can learn, until, amusing myself with the same precipitation, I I, Cæsar Basterga of Padua," the scholar continued, not boastfully but in a tone thoughtful and almost absent, "in the last year of the last century, hit at length upon the same result." The Syndic leaned forward; his hands gripped his knees more tightly.
He employed a mode of proceeding, upon which he preserved the most profound secrecy, and which consisted in advancing to himself, from the coffers of the syndic, half a dozen year's profits, that is to say, fifteen thousand livres, swearing to himself observe, quite to himself to repay this deficiency as soon as an opportunity should present itself.
"I only use the word because I am greatly interested in the success of this enterprise, being convinced of its general utility to the province. Being cognisant as I am of the neighbourhood, I hoped I could prevent some friction." "The shares are, I believe, already on the market?" It was a harmless remark, yet it was a disagreeable one to the Syndic of San Beda.
They act without method and strike without intention, bear into age the follies of youth, and wear the gravity neither of the north nor of the south. But that reminds me," he continued, speaking low and bending towards the other with a look of sympathy "you are better, I hope?" The words were harmless, but they conveyed more than their surface meaning, and they touched the Syndic to the quick.
The poor syndic of the furriers of Paris was filled with the keenest joy at not seeing his son among the fifty-seven gentlemen who were condemned to die. At a sign from the Duc de Guise, the clerk seated on the scaffold cried in a loud voice: "Jean-Louis-Alberic, Baron de Raunay, guilty of heresy, of the crime of lese-majeste, and assault with armed hand against the person of the king."
If Jesuits were treated like that all the world over, perhaps we should have none but inoffensive Jesuits at last, but that happy time is still far off. I had scarcely got to my inn in the evening when I received my three golden balls, and as soon as the syndic came we set off to renew our voluptuous orgy. On the way he talked about modesty, and said,
Taking him for my interpreter, I charged him as we went along to tell the syndic of the boatmen that as he had got to come along with us, he had better in his own interest show us his best boat, and point out everything that we should require for her fitting. The poor man obeyed; so we got an excellent vessel, and we took all that we wanted from the others.
The Syndic knew then that there was more to learn. "All?" he repeated, aghast. "Ay, the truth. All the truth," Louis moaned. "I didn't see it. I did not go to it! I dared not! I swear I dared not." "You did not see it?" the Syndic said slowly. "The phial? You did not see the phial?" "No." This time Messer Blondel did not strike.
Treaty of alliance between England and Russia Certainty of an approaching war M. Forshmann, the Russian Minister Duroc's mission to Berlin New project of the King of Sweden Secret mission to the Baltic Animosity against France Fall of the exchange between Hamburg and Paris Destruction of the first Austrian army Taking of Ulm The Emperor's displeasure at the remark of a soldier Battle of Trafalgar Duroc's position at the Court of Prussia Armaments in Russia Libel upon Napoleon in the Hamburg 'Corespondent' Embarrassment of the Syndic and Burgomaster of Hamburg The conduct of the Russian Minister censured by the Swedish and English Ministers.
Among the admirers of these splendid toilettes, our friend Malicorne was conspicuous; he was the son of a syndic of the city, of whom M. de Conde, always needy as a De Conde, often borrowed money at enormous interest.
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