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A hundred years ago there were a hundred and sixty thousand Marquesans in these islands. Twenty years ago there were four thousand. To-day I am convinced that there remain not twenty-one hundred. A century ago an American naval captain reckoned nineteen thousand fighting men on the island of Nuka-hiva alone. In a valley where three thousand warriors opposed him, there are to-day four adults.
Then he had seen Joe, loafing along the road in the moonlight, and he had relaxed, scarcely aware of the abominable choice he had faced. His own call. Tolliver shrank from the sharp blows. He forced himself to a minute attention. It was division headquarters. "Holding twenty-one here until thirty-three and the special have cleared." Twenty-one was a freight.
Multiply seven-fold national Hazíratu’l-Quds, their establishment in the capital cities of the chief Sovereign States and chief cities of the principal Dependencies of the planet—twenty-one in America, fifteen in Europe, nine in Asia, three in Africa, one in New Zealand.
Not to be denied now, he seized the hand that lay in her lap. "A birthday! Yes, of course, you're twenty-one! Really mistress of it all now! And you don't know what to do with it, except spoil the arrangement of the furniture?" She laughed low and luxuriously. "What am I to do with it?" she asked. "Well, won't you give it all to me?" As he spoke he laughed and kissed her hand.
However, children under twelve, but in no case under ten, may be employed in certain undertakings. Children under fifteen and women under twenty-one cannot be employed in the subterranean parts of mines or quarries. The working day for children is limited to eight hours; night-work is forbidden to women, and to children under fifteen. On Sundays all industrial establishments must close.
"It is," said the lawyer. "Her father revoked his original plan and suggested an alternative. He proposed to put the million in trust for his granddaughter, our Rosemary, a name, sir, that I abominate and which was given to her after my wife had sulked for weeks, the interest to be paid to his daughter until the child reached the age of twenty-one.
At church alone in the pew in the morning. In the afternoon by water I carried my wife to Westminster, where she went to take leave of her father, Pepys's father was Alexander Marchant, Sieur de St. Michel, a scion of a good family in Anjou. Having turned Huguenot at the age of twenty-one, his father disinherited him, and he was left penniless.
out of thirty shires, and forty-four out of fifty-eight burghs, gave their consent; and the result was a second meeting at Edinburgh, in which twenty-one deputies were chosen to arrange the conditions with the parliamentary commissioners at Westminster. From the conquest of Ireland and Scotland we may now turn to the transactions between the commonwealth and foreign powers.
This measure became law notwithstanding the protests of twenty-one peers of the realm who declared: "We dissent because the attempt to coerce by famine the whole body of the inhabitants of great and populous provinces is without example in the history of this, or perhaps, of any civilized nation."
To-day the war cloud is not six thousand miles away in the southern hemisphere; it is here, in Europe, and a strip of water, twenty-one miles broad, separates us from the enemy, which, even as I am speaking, may already be knocking at our gates. Even now, the thunder of the guns may be echoing along the shores of the English Channel.
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