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With the dawn, still singing, they defiled away towards Frugeres, farther up the Tarn, to pursue the work of vengeance, leaving Du Chayla's prison-house in ruins, and his body pierced with two- and-fifty wounds upon the public place. 'Tis a wild night's work, with its accompaniment of psalms; and it seems as if a psalm must always have a sound of threatening in that town upon the Tarn.
'E's an evergreen, is Tom. Why, he was turned five- and-fifty when he challenged and beat, after fifty minutes of it, Jack Thornhill, who was tough enough to take it out of many a youngster. It's better to give odds in weight than in years." "Youth will be served," said a crooning voice from the other side of the table. "Ay, masters, youth will be served."
Oh, the most delightful of all work the very thing I would have chosen! It is to arrange, and catalogue, and generally take care of a large library. And the salary this is the most wonderful part of the whole fairy tale is to be £150 a year. Think of it! One hundred and-fifty pounds a year!" "It is a very good salary," said Mr. Clendon. "I congratulate you."
It was here that poor Du Chayla, the Christian martyr, kept his library and held a court of missionaries; here he had built his tomb, thinking to lie among a grateful population whom he had redeemed from error; and hither on the morrow of his death they brought the body, pierced with two- and-fifty wounds, to be interred. Clad in his priestly robes, he was laid out in state in the church.
Few places offer so good an opportunity for stock-grazing as does this fertile region. This old city is, ere long, to become the terminus of one of our great continental lines of railway, namely, the Southern Pacific. Access is had, at the present time, either overland from San Jose, or by a monthly steamer from San Francisco, the distance being, by water, over three hundred and-fifty miles.
Then said the King, "Thou hast done well, O Hassan, and hast acquitted thyself most excellently. "Fifty," replied Hassan, "and some say eight and-fifty." Quoth the King, "Thou art right. Canst thou tell me the points of excellence in beauty?"
Mentally and physically, I must be much older than my years. At three- and-fifty a man ought not to be brooding constantly on his vanished youth. These days of spring which I should be enjoying for their own sake, do but turn me to reminiscence, and my memories are of the springs that were lost.
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