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"Well an' good murder's an 'anging matter, ain't it?" "An' so it be, Job up wi' him hang him hang him!" "Well an' good!" cried Job again. "'Ang 'im we will, lads, all on us, every man's fist to the rope she can't hang us all, d'ye see. You, Diccon, where be Belvedere; he shall be in it " "Safe fuddled wi' rum, surely. Lord, Job, you do be takin' uncommon risks for a hatful o' guineas "
His Eminence the Lord Prince Cardinal Udeschini was here this afternoon." "What!" gasped Peter. "Ang," said Marietta. "That was Cardinal Udeschini that little harmless-looking, sweet-faced old man!" Peter wondered. "Sicuro the uncle of the Duca," said she. "Good heavens!" sighed he. "And I allowed myself to hobnob with him like a boon-companion." "Gia," said she.
Happily for K`ang Hsi's complacency, the book of fate is hidden from Emperors, as well as from subjects, All but the page prescribed, their present state and he was unable to foresee another visit paid to that mausoleum two hundred and seven years later, under very different conditions, to which we shall come in due course. The census has always been an important institution in China.
Sims, despite her piteous entreaties, was arrested and brought before the magistrate. Her appeals for mercy were heart-rending. "'Ho, mercy, your washup; mercy, Mr. Worrell. Wich I thinks hit were that dratted dorg. Don't 'ang me. I never hintended But Worrell was inexorable. "'But you said you would kill me, you would murder me, and you nearly did murder me.
He was succeeded as khan by his nephew, Arabtan, who soon took up the offensive against China. He invaded Tibet, and pillaged the monasteries as far as Lhasa; but was ultimately driven back by a Manchu army to Sungaria, where he was murdered in 1727. The question of the calendar early attracted attention under the reign of K`ang Hsi.
The Nien-fei, or Twist Rebels, said to have been so called because they wore as a badge turbans twisted with grease, were mounted banditti who, here to-day and gone to-morrow, for several years committed much havoc in the northern provinces of China, until finally suppressed by Tso Tsung-t`ang. Turkestan was the next part of the empire to claim attention.
"Thank yer, mum," he went off muttering grimly, "I'll bore a 'ole in the middle and 'ang it round my neck." This good dame never ceased to worry all through the journey. She pulled her things from under the seat and put them up in the rack, and then reversed their locality. At each station she called frantically to the guard to know where she was and if she ought to change.
"Consent?" he repeated; "vy, of course I does; vouldn't Nosey 'ang me and all of his gang for the purpose of saving his life? and vy should I refuse; to 'elp stretch his neck ven I can keep mine free of the rope? Consent? of course I does." "Remember," said Murden, with a stern look, "that we are to have no tricks here.
"The Signorina Emilia," Marietta promptly informed him. "Really and truly?" questioned he. "Ang," affirmed Marietta, with the national jerk of the head; "the Signorina Emilia Manfredi the daughter of the Duca." "Oh ? Then the Duca was married before?" concluded Peter, with simplicity. "Che-e-e!" scoffed Marietta, on her highest note. "Married? He?"
These men commanded a set of soldiers called houspilleurs, placed in the cell of the prisoner day and night. According to J. Bellow's pocket dictionary, the term houspilleur is derived from the old French term houspiller Ang. 'to worry. And these fellows certainly carried out that meaning of the word.
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