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Updated: May 8, 2025
It is a curious fact, that some of the Scotch highlanders were at that time shot by our Yankee sentinels, because they did not know enough of the English language to give Jonathan the counter-sign! So long ago did mutual contempt begin between the natives of Old England and New.
'One-and-ninepence, or my things will be taken away from me! said I to myself, musingly, as I followed the porter to whom I had delivered my scanty baggage; 'am I to expect many of these greetings in the big world? Well, never mind! I think I know the counter-sign! And I clenched my fist yet harder than before.
Browning's death her husband wrote these lines from Dante in her Testament: "Thus I believe, thus I affirm, thus I am certain it is, that from this life I shall pass to another better, there, where that lady lives, of whom my soul was enamoured." Will Christ counter-sign a hope like this? I do not know any "proof-text" that can be quoted, yet it were profanation to think otherwise.
It is based on the same principle as the password or label. All persons or objects that answer to the same counter-sign or that bear the same imprint are thereby stamped as somehow related. It makes little difference, once they are so stamped, where they are to be found or how they behave themselves. They are known to belong together.
"What do you mean by firing like that? Don't you know enough to ask for the counter-sign before shooting?" "Sure, I forgot about it, captain, entirely. But, then, ye see, I never can hit anything; so it's little difference it makes." The shot had roused the camp, and there was now wild commotion, everybody thinking the Canadians were upon them. A strange sight met the eye of Yates and Renmark.
"Walk crooked," added Borroughcliffe, "that if he fire he may miss." "We shall be shot at, with this folly," muttered Manual. "We are friends, and your officer is one of us." "Stand, friends advance, officer, and give the counter-sign," cried the sentinel. "That is much easier said than done," returned his captain; "forward, Mr.
Short as was the distance, they were challenged twice, and the sign and counter-sign had to be exchanged. They reached the deserted villa, threw down the bundles in a corner; and then the orderly said good night, and left them to themselves. "So far, so good, Percy!" Ralph said, when they heard the street door slam, as the orderly left.
The trap shall close its fangs upon this Indian tiger, ere he has time to devour the bait which enticed him into the snare." While Middlemas cherished these hopes, he approached the Residency. The sentinel on duty stopped him, as of course, but he was in possession of the counter-sign, and entered without opposition.
Wilfrid perceived Count Lenkenstein among them. The ladies Bianca, Anna, and Lena issued mantled and hooded between the lights of two barricade watchfires. Wilfrid stepped after them. They had the password, for the barricades were crossed. The captain of the head-barricade in the Corso demurred, requiring a counter-sign. Straightway he was cut down.
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