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"Not yet, my brave fellows," said the duke; "be firm a little longer, and you shall have at them by-and-by." This homely appeal kept each man in his place in the ranks. But now the superior officers remonstrated, and advised a retreat. "Will the troops stand?" demanded Wellington. "Till they perish!" was the reply. "Then," added the duke, "I will stand with them to the last man."
If any one, however, considers himself wronged, he must appeal to the land Vogt and ask justice from him before sunset. On landing, the Stock with the fredfines was handed over to the Vogt of the sea-port for distribution among the poor." This simple narrative, perhaps better than anything else, depicts the spirit of the medieval guilds.
The years went on, with the gap still left wide in the Vandecar household. As month after month passed and nothing was heard of her children, Mrs. Vandecar gradually gave up hope. Her despair left a shadow of pathetic pleading in her blue eyes. This constant silent appeal whitened Floyd Vandecar's hair and caused him to apply himself to business more assiduously than ever.
For all the authority I seemed to have over him I might have been the potted palm against which he was leaning. 'That's all right. Everything appeared to be all right with him. 'This sort of thing does not appeal to me. Don't be afraid of spoiling my evening. I only came because Becky was so set on it. Dancing bores me pallid, so let's get somewhere where we can sit down and talk.
"What!" cried the chief, "are you thinking of drawing up an appeal in the case of Vicomtesse de Grandlieu against the Legion of Honor a case for the office to stand or fall by? You are something like an ass! Have the goodness to put aside your copies and your notes; you may keep all that for the case of Navarreins against the Hospitals. It is late.
"If you'll leave your gun at home too and stay with me on this I'll undertake to shoot the last sheep out through West Pass inside of a week. And the only chance we take is of getting shot at or arrested for assault and battery. The Territorial Prison end of this gun business never did appeal me, anyway." "No nor me either! But what's the scheme?"
Alan went on: "Because I possess this patent of nobility, I am going to presume upon my privileges and ask you to help me in my life-work; and my life-work, as you know, is to ameliorate the condition of the poor, and to carry to some extent the burdens which they are bound to bear." Elisabeth looked up at him, her face full of interest; no appeal to her pity was ever made in vain.
Alf looked up surprised, and in a voice sad with appeal, he asked if it were very late. I could have given him the exact time, but was afraid to take out my grandfather's watch afraid that the General and his daughter might think that I was seeking to make a display, so I simply said: "Yes, time that we were going."
"Why, all these years, all her life, since she was a baby, not a day, not a night, Evelyn, and now so sweet, so dear why Mrs. Mavick!" And the Scotch woman, dazed, with a piteous appeal in her eyes, trying in vain to control her face, looked at her mistress. "My dear McDonald, you must not take it that way. It is only a change. You are not going away really, we shall all be in the same city.
They will send back the White Bird to the great white chief. Have I spoken well?" This time a confused murmur ran round the circle. Some of the younger men were struck with this appeal to their generosity, and were in favor of the Raven's proposition; the elder and more ferocious Indians were altogether opposed to it.
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