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I vant you to understand over in my country, dat's a good deal older dan dis, and vere de peoples has had a good deal more experience, a man don't get no right to sell liquor unless he is a first-class citizen in every respect. It's a sign dat a man is honest an' sensible an' knows how to manage oder men, if he gets de right to sell liquor.
The ship had gained the reputation of being unlucky, and, having already passed through several accidents, Lawrence assumed command with extreme reluctance. Among the blockading vessels of the enemy outside of Boston was the Shannon, commanded by Captain Philip Bowes Vere Broke.
Lewes began to discuss The Drama with Robert. Mrs. de Vere Carter raised her voice. "How you must have suffered! Yes, there is suffering ingrained in your face. A piece of shrapnel? Ten inches square? Right in at one hip and out at the other? Oh, my poor man! How I feel for you. How all class distinctions vanish at such a time. How " She stopped while Mr. Blank drank his tea.
She could gather nothing from his tone; and now his face was perfectly calm. "My instinct is to keep Vere just as she is, to preserve the loveliness of childhood in her as long as possible, to keep away from her all knowledge of sin, sorrow, the things that distract and torture the world. But I mustn't be selfish about Vere. I mustn't keep her wrapped in cotton wool. That is unwholesome.
At high water he closed the west sluice, which let the water into the town ditch from the Old Haven, in the rear of Helmond, in order to retain as much water as possible, and stationed his troops at the various points most threatened. Sir Horace Vere and Sir Charles Fairfax, with twelve weak companies, some of them reduced to ten or twelve men, were stationed on the sand hill.
"But why," asked the duchess, "do you tell me this?" "Because it concerns you most nearly. She lives under your roof she is, in some measure, your protégée." "Vere will be very angry when he hears of it," said the duchess. And then Lord Arleigh looked up proudly. "I do not see why he should. It is no business of his." "He will think it so strange."
This is a shadowed place like a confessional, where murmuring lips tell to strangers the stories of their lives. I am not a stranger, but tell me, my friend, about yourself and Vere. Perhaps you scarcely know how deeply the mother and child problem interests me that is, when mother and child are two real forces, as you and Vere are." "Then you think Vere has force?" "Do not you?"
Is anything the matter with you?" Suddenly, as if struck sharply, Vere sprang up and passed into the darkness of the house, leaving a sound that was like a mingled exclamation and a sob behind her. "Emile!" "Emile!" "Hermione?" "What is the matter with Vere? What have you been doing to Vere?" "Yes, you! No one else is here." Hermione's violent, almost furious agitation was audible in her voice.
But the experienced Maurice too well knew the emptiness of such dreams. He had a splendid army eighteen thousand foot and five thousand horse of which Lewis William commanded the battalia, Vere the right, and Count Ernest the left, with a train of two thousand baggage wagons, and a considerable force of sutlers and camp-followers.
The man had already escaped from his sight into Vere Street, and the doctor broke into a soft run until he reached the corner, skirting which, the man was immediately in his view, but at a considerable distance from him. As the doctor sprang upon the pavement the man turned round, and, evidently observing that he was pursued, quickened his steps impulsively.
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