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Sidney, at the age of three-and-twenty, received the highest praise for the management of a secret embassy to the Emperor of Germany; took the deepest and most active interest in the political affairs of his country; would have sailed with Sir Francis Drake for South American discovery; and might probably have been king of poor Poland, if the queen had not been too selfish or wise to spare him.
She was a large, handsome girl of about three-and-twenty. What was her reason for journeying unattended to Cairo we know not. Whether she ever reached her destination we are still in doubt, for a more complacently incapable damsel never went a-voyaging.
"What's to be done now?" asked Arnold. In the face of the storm, Anne answered without hesitation, "You must take a carriage, and drive." "Drive? They told me it was three-and-twenty miles, by railway, from the station to my place let alone the distance from this inn to the station." "What does the distance matter? Mr. Brinkworth, you can't possibly stay here!"
You're a lucky dog, not even to have your commission from your agent's hands, and yet to be on the edge of the biggest campaign since Waterloo. A lad of three-and-twenty had risen from a seat in the corner of the room at the moment of John Jervase's entry.
The infantry halted for some hours in M'Dowell in order that rations might be issued, but the Federals made three-and-twenty miles, and were already too far ahead to be overtaken. On the 10th and the 11th the Confederates made forced marches, but the enemy set fire to the forests on the mountain-side, and this desperate measure proved eminently successful.
At Eton, a great deal of Snobbishness was thrashed out of Lord Buckram, and he was birched with perfect impartiality. Even there, however, a select band of sucking tuft-hunters followed him. Young Croesus lent him three-and-twenty bran-new sovereigns out of his father's bank.
My brother, who died of fever some weeks ago, and I were the last male survivors of a very ancient house. We were born to great prospects, or at least he was; but owing to the conduct of our father, everything was lost to us, and the old house, which had been ours for centuries, went to the hammer. That was some seven years ago, when I was a man of three-and-twenty.
"You prefer nothing for nothing," said Mr. May, with a smile; "well, I suppose that is more fair, perhaps to the public; but how about me? A son of three-and-twenty depending upon me for everything, useless and bringing in nothing, does not suit me. You are all the same," he said, "all taking from me, with a thousand wants, education, clothes, amusement "
Your kindness almost overpowers me. I wish nature had made such hearts as yours more common, but I have lived three-and-twenty years in the world, and have seen none like it. At present, believe me, I have no need of your services, being in cash again. Give me joy: I have got rid of Sir Walter and Miss.
"I think that is quite wicked, Mary. If you love me, you ought to promise to marry me." "On the contrary, I think it would be wicked in me to marry you even if I did love you." "You mean, just as I am, without any means of maintaining a wife. Of course: I am but three-and-twenty." "In that last point you will alter. But I am not so sure of any other alteration.
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