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But you must get a gun." "I should like some fresh air," said Philip, "and as you've come over for me " I knew the appealing tone in his voice was for my ears, for my face had fallen. "Could I be going on with it?" I asked, nodding towards the forest scene. "Oh dear no! I'll go at it again to-night. It ought all to be painted by candlelight by rights. I'm not going to desert my post," he added.
As a man who brings twenty-five thousand francs is always a worthy official, the cashier is sure not to leave without his confirmation to the post from which he has seen a succession of ministers come and go during a period of, perhaps, twenty-five years.
But the little dog would not leave his post, while we would turn round the tree, and never failed discovering the hidden inmate. We then commence the attack, not ceasing until pug was laid prostrate.
"Return to England poor and despised, and bound still to him, or a disgraced and divorced wife, disgraced by the low-born dependant on my kinsman's house, and fawn perhaps upon my sister and her husband for bread! Never! I am at my post, and I will not fly." "Brave, brave!" said the boy, clapping his hands, and sincerely moved by a daring superior to his own; "I wish I could help you!"
It is represented that some provisions in the law which establishes the post office operate, in experiment, against the transmission of news papers to distant parts of the country.
"This is my post: I was born for this to rule England in anarchy, to save her in danger to devote myself for her. The blood of my forefathers cries aloud in my veins, and bids me be first among my countrymen.
At that moment another flash showed me a figure close by my side and I caught the words "Me show de way, dare high ground little ahead, come 'long." It was Dio, who had leapt from the waggon in which he had been seated and had come to the front, the post of danger. Endowed with a keener eyesight than the rest of us, during darkness he had distinguished the ground which we had failed to see.
Major Kitchener, however, gave satisfaction to his superiors in Cairo, if not to the exacting General at Khartoum, and in 1886 he was appointed Governor of Suakin. This post, always one of responsibility and danger, did not satisfy Kitchener, whose ambition was now taking definite form.
"All personnel not at their action stations are warned for the last time to report there immediately. Any man found away from his post from this point on is in open mutiny and can expect the death penalty. This is the last warning." The men in the corridor had heard, but a glance showed they paid no attention to what they considered an idle threat. They didn't know how near I was.
Being himself one of the dignitaries of Golden Friars, the Doctor, having regard to first impressions, did not care to be seen in his post of observation; and closing the door gently, returned to his chair by the fire, and in an under-tone informed his cronies that there was a new arrival in the George, and he could not hear, but would not wonder if he were taking a private room; and he seemed to have trunks enough to build a church with.
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