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The matter was discussed for a moment, and then Tom tied his handkerchief to a stick and held it up. "Ahoy there!" came from Arnold Baxter. "Will you honor the flag of truce?" "Yes," yelled Sergeant Brown. "And let us have our distance after our talk is over, if we can't come to terms?" "Yes." "All right, then; we'll come close enough to talk to you."

The marriages were proposed to the late king, and approved by him, during the negotiations for the truce, and had Don Pedro do Toledo been able to govern himself, as Jeannin has just been telling me, the United Provinces would have drawn from it their assured security. You were to be entirely abandoned, as an example for all who throw off the authority of their lawful prince.

You do the same to meet us firin' like smoke. Arter a sharp scrimmedge you retire send us a flag of truce with terms and finally lay down your arms." The major bowed till his ostrich feather touched the mane of his wall-eyed plough horse, then turned bridle, and regained his ranks at a gait something between a stumble and a rack.

As it was through the mediation of the Count d'Avaux that the truce of twenty-six years between Sweden and Poland was concluded, Queen Christina ordered her Ambassador to return her thanks to the King of France.

Nevertheless we at last stayed him, and after that I had enquired, as it were in jest, whether he had healed his old feud with Mistress Ursula and concluded a truce, or peradventure made peace with her, he answered me, in a tone all unlike his wonted frank and glad manner, that this for a while must remain privy to him and her, and that we should scarce be the first to whom he should reveal the matter; and forthwith he bid us farewell with a courtly reverence.

Florismart succeeded in bringing the two champions to accord, by informing them that he could bring them to the presence of Orlando, the master of Durindana. Gradasso and Mandricardo readily made truce, in order to accompany Florismart, nor would Rogero be left behind.

From that fatal day of the Grattan massacre ten years before, there had been no real truce with the Sioux, and now was opportunity afforded for a long-plotted revenge. Dean wondered Folsom had not looked for it instead of sleeping in fancied security. A mile nearer the butte and, glancing back, he could see his faithful men come bounding in his tracks.

I asked B.... what he thought of that, and he admitted that I had the best of the argument. Before I dismissed this flag of truce, his companion consulted me confidentially as to what disposition he ought to make of his family, then in Mobile, and I frankly gave him the best advice I could.

Yet this angry complainant describes other people's convictions as "absurd and insane." All the sympathy and consideration is to be on one side! The less said about either the better. There can be no treaty or truce in a war of principles, and the soldiers of Progress will neither take quarter nor give it. Christianity must defend itself.

Minford and his guest telegraphed a truce with their eyes, and assumed a cheerful look. Little Pet timidly ran to her father, and kissed him, and then shook hands with Marcus. He observed a shrinking in her touch. She averted her eyes. "Your clothes are damp, and your feet wet, my darling," said the father, "Are they?" answered Pet, looking down at her saturated garments and glistening shoes.