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A British standard captured on that occasion was also presented to him. Many of his troops being sick, Greene again retired to the High Hills of Santee, where he remained until the middle of November. There, on the thirtieth of October, he was informed of the glorious events at Yorktown, and the day was made jubilant with the rejoicings of the army.
He begged his way slowly and painfully back to China, and arrived at the covenanted spot at the expiration of the thirtieth year. His father's modest dwelling had disappeared, and in its place stood a magnificent mansion, around which stretched a park with pavilions, canals, willow-trees, golden pheasants, and little bridges.
As his biographer says, he grew more and more "inclined by his temperament to a meditative existence." When he was in his thirtieth year, a crisis came. By some means or other, he secured a lucrative sinecure, that of treasurer of finances at Caen in Normandy. He hated the country and went down to Caen on the rarest occasions possible.
Witness our Self at Westminster, the Thirtieth Day of June, in the Seventeenth Year of our Reign. Per Ipsum Regem. An ABSTRACT of the CONSTITUTION of CAROLINA.
"You look so well otherwise. You'll recover before we know where we are!" "Yes, thank God!" The master laughed gaily between two attacks. "If you only go at the beast hard enough, it'll surely die. Now, where you are, in your thirtieth year, you ought to be able to get at it. Suppose you were to give it cognac?"
"And he will adopt." "Hush! he is thinking of it, and his wife wishes It." "Is it likely to happen soon?" "Who can tell at this moment what Caesar may decide on in the very next hour. But probably his decision may be made on the thirtieth of December." "Your birthday." "He asked what day it was, and he is certainly casting my horoscope, for the night when my mother bore me "
Embarked in two of those antiquated craft whose high poops and tub-like porportions are preserved in the old engravings of De Bry, they sailed from Havre on the eighteenth of February, 1562. They crossed the Atlantic, and on the thirtieth of April, in the latitude of twenty-nine and a half degrees, saw the long, low line where the wilderness of waves met the wilderness of woods.
It had kept him from plunging deeply into dissipation when youth was hot in his veins. It was now keeping him from the sluggard's fate. On the last day of January six weeks after his thirtieth birthday he came home earlier than usual, as they were going to the theatre and were to dine at seven. He found Alice in bed and the doctor sitting beside her.
Thus, in a few weeks, one man had collected about the thirtieth part of the annual export from Ceylon; or, allowing that he stole at least one-half, this would amount to the fifteenth. It would be a vain attempt to restrain these people from their fixed habit; they would as soon think of refraining from betel-chewing as giving up a favorite food.
"Where shall I find ten thousand francs for to-morrow, the THIRTIETH?" cried Birotteau, as he crossed the courtyard. According to Parisian custom, notes were paid on the thirtieth, if the thirty-first was a holiday.
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