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He was known as Brother Louis, but was not the Brother Louis who transacted business for Sister Bourgeois in France at a later period. To return again to the manuscript.
As soon as their canoe arrived at the landing place, the water king came out from beneath the awning, and followed by the musicians and a suite of attendants, walked to the hut, in which all public matters were transacted, and whither in a few minutes the Landers were desired to repair.
The spirit in which this convention transacted its business is sufficiently shown in the opening paragraphs of the letter of instructions which it gave to the deputies whom it sent to the congress:
The very buildings in which the government transacted its business had echoed to the tread of statesmen, warriors, and priests of the old régime. The civil and military branches of the government then occupied apartments in the old Château St. Louis, elevated on the brink of an inaccessible precipice.
So saying, he glared at his two brothers, who made no reply, and walked out of the meeting-house in which this ungodly business had been transacted. "Oh, it is only Joe," said Thomas Putnam; "he always was the spoiled child of the family." His wife said nothing, but soon a hard, bitter smile took the place of the angry flush that the young man's words had produced.
But when we have clarified our ideas on the subject to this extent, we must once more face the question suggested by Professor James What is it that is transacted?
We now approach London, the mighty mistress of the commercial world, the most populous city on our globe. Here, certers the trade of all nations here, is transacted the business of the world. If you would know how it looks where concentration of business has reached its climax, then come to London.
Not only this; they had burrowed to a depth of a story or two under the ground, and through this ran passages in which the Chinese transacted their dark and devious affairs as the smuggling of opium, the traffic in slave girls and the settlement of their difficulties.
The two young men left him and for the next hour and a half Professor Brierly kept several copy boys and the telephone operator on the jump. He was not disturbed. The managing editor was told who was in his office when he came in and he took a desk in the city room, where he transacted his routine morning business.
That functionary, who had neither desired the young noble's confidence, nor contemplated the honor of being run through the body as a consequence of receiving it, was somewhat aghast at the rapid manner in which these gentlemen transacted business. He willingly gave the required pledge, and was permitted to depart.
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