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Chandra was in the forefront, but the leader was his Honor the District Judge, a glassy-eyed, tight-lipped Mussulman in a loincloth and a greasy turban. The lights of the Collector's bungalow came in view, and the leader thought of young Capper, and rushed on, frothing like a madman, waving his sword above his head. Then he paused, and ran back to meet the laggards of a yard or two.
As soon as his men had assembled at Headquarters he marched to the place and commenced to put it in a state of defence and preparation for a siege. Collector's Court and Office. Day by day external operation became more restricted as the mob grew larger and bolder, better armed and better organized, daily augmented and assisted from without.
What! in such an hour as this, at a moment pregnant with the national fate, when, pressing as the exigency may be, the hard task of squeezing the money from the pockets of an impoverished people, from the toil, the drudgery of the shivering poor, must make the most practised collector's heart ache while he tears it from them can it be that people of high rank, and professing high principles, that they or their families should seek to thrive on the spoils of misery and fatten on the meals wrested from industrious poverty?
'Tis for them to be just, and other folk to be generous with what's their own. 'Mother talks as if she was a guardian herself! said Alfred in his funny way. 'Ah, the collector's going his rounds, responded Harold; and Mrs.
Men may write remarkable books, and understand but little the virtues of their books from the collector's point of view. Men are seldom clever in more ways than one. Z. Jackson was a practical printer, and his knowledge as a printer enabled him to correct sundry errors in the first folio of Shakespeare. But Z. Jackson, as the Rev.
It commanded his admiration the more that her small arm trembled against his sleeve. "The courage of it," he murmured; "and Miss Quiney of all women!" She needed courage. The Collector's handsome face greeted her with a scowl and a hard stare; he could be intractable in his cups. "Excuse me, madam, but I sent for Miss Josselin." She answered him, but first made low obeisance.
Mira! you will see a revolution in this country very soon. A good sign of it is when the government calls all the time for pesos, pesos, pesos, and pays none out." Felipe left the collector's office with a look almost of content on his sombre face. A revolution would mean fighting, and then the government would need his services.
Only, in the morning, when no one was seen stirring about the tax collector's house, and then it grew noon and the lattices were not opened or the ladder let down, the Tagalog soldiers brought another ladder and put it against the house, and I climbed up and went in, to find the two men who stayed there, the Spaniard and Juan, dead on the floor.
At the conclusion of these observations, which drew forth evidences of acute feeling from Mrs Kenwigs, and had the intended effect of impressing the company with a deep sense of the collector's dignity, a ring was heard at the bell. 'That's him, whispered Mr Kenwigs, greatly excited. 'Morleena, my dear, run down and let your uncle in, and kiss him directly you get the door open. Hem!
Carlton's agent had called twice during the time, and came in a few minutes afterwards. "You're too soon for me," said Wilkinson, with not a very cheerful or welcome expression of countenance. "It's past twelve," returned the man. "All the same if it were past three. I haven't the money." The collector's brow lowered heavily. "How soon will you have it?"
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