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Those who have come under the spell of his personality declare him to be the most delightful of companions; what Germany has grown to be under his reign of twenty-five years all the world knows, much of the world envies, some of the world fears; what his own people think of him can best be expressed by the statement that his supremacy was never more assured than to-day.
I have lived here these twenty-five years, and never saw any man but yourself during that time.
He also said he lived in lodgings and intended going to the horse-fair the next day to look for a good horse, and, may be, to buy one. He went on to state that he had now nearly twenty-five roubles only one rouble short and that half of it was a coupon. He took the coupon out of his purse to show to his new friend.
This concession, I am told, extends to twenty-five years they have now been at work for two, and the results are already apparent in some almost bare slopes once clothed with these huge primeval trees.
"Can't the party raise any better material than that?" asked a bystander before a speech of his; after it, he exclaimed that the speaker knew more than all the other candidates put together. This time he was elected, being then twenty-five, and thereafter he was returned for three further terms of two years.
"Here are the names of a hundred women working here, whose husbands are among the strikers. I thought that out of these hundred families, I might be able to find twenty-five who would be willing to try the experiment." The three callers looked at each other and then they nodded approval.
"Thereupon she went out, and after asking the servant, whom I suppose she had sent here, what time he had come back, she returned to me, shut the door, and gave me the packet, telling me that it contained twenty-five Louis for my cure, and that if I valued my life I would keep silence in the matter. I promised to be discreet, and with that I left here, and here I am.
As the traveller crosses one of the open forests of this tree, which is often twenty-five feet high, the more distant ones appear to beckon like some uncanny desert octopus yearning to draw him within reach of those scrawny arms. The blossom of this monstrous growth is a revelation, so unexpected is it.
'Well, ma'am, said the squire, calm at white heat; 'a fool's confession ought to be heard out to the end. What about the twenty-five thousand? 'I hoped to help my Harry. 'Why didn't you do it openly? She breathed audible long breaths before she could summon courage to say: 'His father was going to make an irreparable sacrifice.
"If you really should make it a rule to refuse all children under twelve," she added, "tell me how many would go out of your mill." "In other words, how many under twelve do we work there?" he asked. She nodded. He thought a while and then said: "About one hundred and twenty-five." She started: "That is terrible terrible!
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