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'Who? returned Tim Linkinwater. 'Who! repeated Nicholas. 'The young lady. 'What do you make, Mr Nickleby, said Tim, taking his pen out of his mouth, 'what do you make of four hundred and twenty-seven times three thousand two hundred and thirty-eight? 'Nay, returned Nicholas, 'what do you make of my question first? I asked you
Barry just at present, so if you are love-lorn you had better go to bed." "Very well. When I am love-lorn I will. Now, what have you got to tell me?" "I have lent a man a large sum of money, two hundred and twenty-seven pounds!" "You are always lending people large sums of money." "I generally get it back again." "From Mr.
In 1813 they captured four hundred prizes, while the national cruisers took but seventy-nine. The "True-Blooded Yankee" alone in thirty-seven days took twenty-seven vessels, some of them in Dublin Bay, and was not captured. The loss of property and of prestige was so great that in 1814 insurance on vessels crossing the Irish Channel was rated at thirteen per cent.
But governors with the authority and power of the British Crown behind them could not be so easily resisted as the deputy governors of the Penns. The Assembly, however, voted twenty-seven to three with Franklin and Galloway.
And the new zeal had ceased to be healthy in its tone as the old zeal was: for now the fierce demon Mammon was making his voice heard in this matter. Within the ten years preceding the Boreal expedition, no less than twenty-seven expeditions had set out, and failed. The secret of this new rage lay in the last will and testament of Mr.
She has reigned for twenty-seven years twenty-seven long and weary years! I was a little boy when she usurped the throne. Now my sun has reached its meridian, yet she is still there, a blight upon the land. But God knows what is best. He cannot err."
The banker was about fifty, the lady twenty-seven and the wife of a well-known New York actor. So lavish were the banker's attentions to this charming lady that he gave a most extraordinary banquet in her honor at the Riverside Hotel to which were invited about one hundred guests.
The publisher gave fifty pounds for the copyright; which is probably more than an unknown writer of twenty-seven years of age would get for a similar work, at the present time. But, in other respects, its success fell far short of Hume's expectations. In a letter dated the 1st of June, 1739, he writes,
"Item, another packet sealed with six seals, on which a similar inscription was written. In this were twenty-seven pieces of paper on each of which was written: 'Sundry curious secrets. "Item, another packet with six more seals, on which a similar inscription was written. In this were found seventy-five livres, addressed to different persons.
The following case concerning a woman of twenty-seven, who had been asked in marriage, is somewhat extreme, but not very exceptional. "She did not feel sure of her affection and she asked a woman cousin concerning the meaning of love. This cousin lent her Ellis Ethelmer's pamphlet, The Human Flower.
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