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Unhappily the flames, which at this time had nearly died out, were re- kindled two months later on occasion of the arrest of certain persons concerned in the former riots; and though this fresh outbreak lasted but a few days, it was attended in one case with fatal consequences. Writing on August 20, Lord Elgin says: We are again in some excitement here.
It don't make no odds, I guess, whether it's a thread or a rope you 're hangin' by, so long as you hang." The next morning, little Mote Hobson, who had stayed all night with his uncle in Union, was walking home by the side of the river.
A like double purpose is apparent throughout the De Re Publica, where Africanus the younger is the chief personage, and in the treatise on Friendship, where Laelius is the central figure.
You look into a stereoscope and think you see a miniature of a building or a mountain; you don't, you 're made a fool of by your lying intelligence, as you call it; you see the building and the mountain just as large as with your naked eye looking straight at the real objects. Doubt it, do you? Perhaps you'd like to doubt it to the music of a couple of gold five-dollar pieces.
Athy, of Kinvarra, has very little to say. He thinks the bill would make Ireland a hell upon earth for all Protestants living in Catholic communities, and that a settlement of the land question would settle the hash of the agitators. Mr. Kendal, of Tallyho, an Englishman twenty-five years resident in Ireland, agrees in the latter opinion. I forgot to question him re toleration.
Presently, however, somebody poked his head through the door, which he opened just wide enough to admit it, and bawling out "Short, re Meeson," vanished as abruptly as he had come. "Now, Lady Holmhurst, if you please," said Mr. John Short, "allow me to show the way, if you will kindly follow with the will this way, please."
'Be cool, she counselled him. 'Oh! He flung back his head, making light of the crisis. 'After all, it's only a girl. But, you know, what I set myself to win! . . . The thing's too small I have been at such pains about it that I should be ridiculous if I allowed myself to be beaten. There is no other reason for the trouble we 're at, except that, as I have said a thousand times, she suits me.
"You think you 're a big gun, Blake," one of his underworld victims once had the temerity to cry out at him. "You think you 're the king of the Hawkshaws! But if you were on my side of the fence, you 'd last about as long as a snowball on a crownsheet!" It was not until the advent of Copeland, the new First Deputy, that Blake began to suspect his own position.
"No, dear duchesse, I fear I have not even looked for him the science of patches I have always found so much harder than the science of living!" gayly answered Madame de Sevigne. Madame de Kerman had now re joined them, and all three passed into la Chambre des Marmousets. The three ladies grouped themselves about the fire, which they found already lighted.
As he made these re- marks Coleman's dignity was something grand, and, Morever, there was now upon his face that curious look of temperance and purity which had been noted in New York as a singular physical characteristic. If he. was guilty of anything in this affair at all-in fact, if he had ever at any time been guilty of anything- no mark had come to stain that bloom of innocence.
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