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"Think what my first floor will be worth in seven years!" said Molineux. "Why, what would two furnished rooms let for in that quarter? more than two hundred francs a month perhaps! I am binding myself binding myself by a lease. The rent ought to be fifteen hundred francs.
In our domestic policy the Constitution will be my guide, and in questions of doubt I shall look for its interpretation to the judicial decisions of that tribunal which was established to expound it and to the usage of the Government, sanctioned by the acquiescence of the country. I regard all its provisions as equally binding.
"Yes and a gang from the big shanty; I seen 'em goin' in," shouted back the red-shirted foreman. The volunteers big, brawny men, who, warned by the foreman, had been binding wet cloths over their mouths, now sprang forward, peering into the gloom. Then the sound of footsteps was heard nearer nearer. Groping through the blue haze stumbled a man, his shirt sleeve shielding his mouth.
He revealed it pretty clearly on several occasions; notably in 1908 in a tercentenary address at Quebec in the presence of the present King, when he said: "We are reaching the day when our parliament will claim co-equal rights with the British parliament and when the only ties binding us together will be a common flag and a common crown."
"I am not saying that Miss Kate is to lose her lover. I hope I'll have the binding of 'em together myself, and I'll go bail I'll do it fast enough. In the meanwhile let her keep herself to herself a little more." The advice was very good, but Mrs. O'Hara knew not how to make use of it.
He was much gratified with the trifle, it being of Peshawurree muslin, a kind much sought after and prized by the Uzbegs. He immediately took off his own turban, which was indeed rather the worse for wear, and binding the new one round his head, declared with a self-satisfied look, that "it would be exceedingly becoming."
Mulvaney was shaking him savagely. Meantime the men in the room howled with delight. There was war in the confederacy at last war and the breaking of bonds. Barrack-room etiquette is stringent. On the direct challenge must follow the direct reply. This is more binding than the ties of tried friendship. Once again Mulvaney repeated the question.
It was as if he had hit his fingers with a tack hammer at home. He held the wounded member carefully away from his side so that the blood would not drip upon his trousers. The captain of the company, tucking his sword under his arm, produced a handkerchief and began to bind with it the lieutenant's wound. And they disputed as to how the binding should be done.
In the light of what has been discussed, may we not believe that with his days prolonged, he would during the perilous years have been the safe counsellor the rock of the great President, in preserving the nation's life, and later in "binding up the nation's wounds."
Is it any wonder, then, that a people with such high ideals, such lofty spirits, such love of freedom, would tamely submit to a Union where such ideals and spirits were so lightly considered as by those who were now in charge of the government where our women and children were to be at the mercies of a brutal race, with all of their passions aroused for rapine and bloodshed; where we would be continually threatened or subjected to a racial war, one of supremacy; where promises were made to be broken, pledges given to be ignored; where laws made for all were to be binding only on those who chose to obey?
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