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Watts offer to make him agent for the distribution, with a commission of five in the hundred on all sums passing through his hands, than his scruples instantly vanished. But at last everything was settled except the swearing of the treaty by Meer Jaffier, on which the whole affair turned.
Clive turned and stared for a moment in the direction I pointed in. "You are right," he responded. "Meer Jaffier, of course! Well, since he has put off his assistance so long, he shall see how little we needed it!" A thrill of fresh energy seemed to sweep through him as he began issuing his orders for the final charge.
Sir Frederick Roberts lost no time in despatching a column to, the Kohistan to punish Meer Butcha by destroying that chief's forts and villages, and to ascertain whether the tribesmen of the district had dispersed to their homes. This was found to be the case, and the column returned after having been out five days.
Such reputation as he has is the result of the admiration of those altogether ignorant of art, but possessed of enough literary ability to trumpet abroad their praises of "great conceptions," and will as surely fade away to nothing as the reputation of such simple painters as Van Der Meer or Chardin will continue to grow, while painting as an art is loved and understood. By C. E. BOURNE
In person the Meer Walli was certainly very prepossessing; his voice was peculiarly musical, and his manner gentlemanly and easy; his face would have been eminently handsome but for a dreadful wound by which he had lost a portion of his nose.
As Justice dependeth on Antecedent Covenant; so does Gratitude depend on Antecedent Grace; that is to say, Antecedent Free-gift: and is the fourth Law of Nature; which may be conceived in this Forme, "That a man which receiveth Benefit from another of meer Grace, Endeavour that he which giveth it, have no reasonable cause to repent him of his good will."
But we lose precious time, since you design me a kind Hour in your Chamber. Har. Oh Traitor! Mop. You'll be sure to keep it from Harlequin. Har. Ah yes, he, hang him, Fool, he takes you for a Saint. Scar. Harlequin! Hang him, shotten Herring. Har. Ay, a Cully, a Noddy. Mop. A meer Zany. Har. Ah, hard-hearted Turk. Mop. Fit for nothing but a Cuckold. Har. Monster of Ingratitude! Mop.
"Sing to me!" he murmured presently. Stroking his head and brow, she sang as aforetime at the bungalow upon the Hudson: Stark wie der Fels, Tief wie das Meer, Muss deine Liebe, Muss deine Liebe sein! ... The third trip was made in safety, and others after it, and steadily the colony took shape and growth. More and more the caves came to be occupied.
For there is not always that difference of strength or prudence between the man and the woman, as that the right can be determined without War. But the question lyeth now in the state of meer Nature; where there are supposed no lawes of Matrimony; no lawes for the Education of Children; but the Law of Nature, and the naturall inclination of the Sexes, one to another, and to their children.
This general having received advice, on the fourth of August, that the enemy intended to pass the Lippe the same evening with a considerable train of artillery, in order to burn the bridge at Rees, decamped with a view to cover this place, and join two battalions which; had passed the Rhine in boats, under the command of general Zastrow, who reinforced him accordingly; but the enemy not appearing, he concluded the information was false, and resolved to resume his advantageous post at Meer.
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