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To exclude the Inquisition; to maintain the ancient liberties. of his country, was the task which he appointed to himself when a youth of three-and-twenty.
"Well, sir," resumed the man, "we shoved off from the ship's side three-and-twenty of us, as you know but, beg pardon, sir, I forgot you wasn't on deck " "Never mind about that, my lad," interrupted I; "go ahead as quickly as possible. You shoved off from the ship and pulled away into the river. What happened then?" "Nothin' at all, sir," was the reply.
"Three-and-twenty minutes and a half since you took the first lock from its forehead. It is the first time that I have ever seen one done in less than half an hour."
It was history, to begin with, that Jeanne's mother had been three-and-twenty years before, at Geneva, schoolmate and good girlfriend to Maria Gostrey, who had moreover enjoyed since then, though interruptedly and above all with a long recent drop, other glimpses of her.
He was a young handsome man of two or three-and-twenty, lounging slowly along with the air of modest appreciation of his own value to Queen and country not to mention private dinner parties and county balls which seems soon to become a part of the military character in a garrison town.
CAPTAIN. Necklace and a sweet pair of diamond earrings, mayhap and a little shower of patches, which ornament a lady's face wondrously and a leetle rouge though, egad! such peach-cheeks as yours don't want it; fie! Mrs. Catherine, I should think the birds must come and peck at them as if they were fruit CORPORAL. Over the wall; and three-and-twenty of our fellows jumped after me.
From this preamble who would not have expected either the rank of general, or the restoration of my great Sclavonian estates? I had been fifteen years a captain of cavalry, and then was I made an invalid major three-and-twenty years ago, and an invalid major I still remain!
How could you guess that? looking at me in surprise. 'Gladys, Miss Hamilton, is about three-and-twenty, but she is very delicate; the younger one, Elizabeth, is two years younger; they are Hamilton's half-sisters, his father married twice: that accounts for a good deal. 'How do you mean, accounts for a good deal, Max?
Indeed, before the year 1834 they felt pinched. This family schedule sufficiently explains why Mlle. de Marville, aged three-and-twenty, was still unwed, in spite of a hundred thousand francs of dowry and tempting prospects, frequently, skilfully, but so far vainly, held out.
Although she was now three-and-twenty, she was still a child, a child of thirteen, who had retired within herself, absorbed in the bitter catastrophe which had annihilated her. You could tell this by the frigidity of her glance, by her absent expression, by the haunted air she ever wore, unable as she was to bestow a thought on anything but her calamity.
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