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The British would hear of nothing but free and common socage. French farms were measured by the arpent and were staked out in long and narrow oblongs. British farms were measured by the acre and staked out 'on the square. Language, laws, religion, manners and customs, ways of life, were also different. So there was hardly any intermixture of settlements.
To each was assigned, moreover, sixty arpents of land beyond the limits of the village, with the perpetual rent of half a sou for each arpent. He also set apart a common, two hundred arpents in extent, for the use of the settlers, on condition of the payment by each of five sous a year.
The average yearly rent for an arpent of arable land is 100 francs.
Pierre had bought with his lifetime savings a neat house and fair-sized orangery. No fields? And den he certain' want somboddie to boss gang o' fellows. And den he say, 'How I goin' do widout you? And den dare be fifty arpent' rice gone!" No, no fields.
There was something in this clean past of his, in his cold patrician face and luxurious habits new to her, and she had a greedy relish for it all. She had been loved before, caressed as men caress a dog, kicking it off when it becomes troublesome. George's boyish shyness, his reverent awe of her, startled her. "He thinks Lisa Arpent a jeune fille like these others.
Lawrence was heavily timbered, and the work of clearing proved tedious. It was estimated that an industrious settler, working by himself, could clear not more than one superficial arpent in a whole season.
It's a pity to see my boy killed by a thing like that it's a pity " Miss Vance was too frightened to argue with her. She brought her wrapper, loosened her hair, soothing her in little womanish ways. But her burning curiosity drove her presently to ask one question. "How can they live?" "I have doubled his allowance." "Frances! You will work harder to make money for Lisa Arpent?"
He led her up to the chair. The girl's head was wrapped in a veil and turned from her. Mrs. Waldeaux held out her hands. "Lucy! Lucy Dunbar!" she heard herself say. "Mais non! Cest moi!" said a shrill voice, and Mlle. Arpent, turning her head lazily, looked at her, smiling. Clara Vance had her faults, but nobody could deny that, in this crisis, she acted with feeling and tact.
This is certainly So-chew, near the entrance of the great wall in Shensi. Astl. Called by Forster Katasekt-schen, Sekt-scheu, Schel- scheu, or Su-tcheu. This commentary on tea is placed in the text of Forster, and is therefore here preserved in the same form, though no part of the original. An arpent is a French measure nearly one and a half of which are equal to an English acre. Astl.
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