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But I must tell you that Canto, Sociande, and Gorgibus are authorised to inform against us by a commission signed by that august name which should never be employed but for the preservation of the most sacred laws, and which Cardinal Mazarin, who knows no law but that of revenge, which he meditates against the defenders of the public liberty, has forced M. Tellier, Secretary of State, to countersign.
At sight of Culvera he stopped rolling a cigarette to snatch up his rifle and fling a challenge at him. "How is it that you have let your prisoner escape?" demanded the officer in Spanish after he had given the countersign. "Escape? No, señor. Listen. Do you not hear him move?" replied in the boy in the same tongue. "I think the Gringo is having a fit.
And she goes on exhibiting herself with all her little airs, setting herself off like a fine peach magnificently exhibited in a fruiterer's window. But since you have dined rather heartily, you kiss her upon the forehead merely, not feeling able to countersign your opinions. Caroline becomes serious. The carriage waits.
To avoid delay and the examination of physicians Rosslyn proposed that, if the King would sign it, there should be a message. It will be arranged that there shall be two Ministers present-one to countersign, the other to affix the stamp. The Attorney- and Solicitor-General were called in.
But as they came toward the center of the line, and drew nearer to the fort itself, they met another picket, who was either more watchful or more acute. He hailed them at a range of forty or fifty yards, and when Colonel Winchester made the same reply he ordered them to halt and give the countersign.
Give to these men a countersign and they do not discuss; provided it is legal, or seems so, they act accordingly, not merely against strangers, but against Frenchmen: thus, already on the 13th Vendemiaire they mowed down the Parisians, and on the 18th of Fructidor they purged the Legislative Corps.
Towards evening it was positively stated that plots were afoot aiming at nothing less than the life of General Botha; and the Main Guard, which had been mounted at the General's house from the day of the Bodyguard's formation, was doubled. Not a soul was allowed within or around the modest grounds of the house without challenge at the point of the bayonet and presentment of the countersign.
He claimed to be a countryman of mine." "Are you an Alsatian?" "Yes, sir. Well, I went with this man to the wine-shop at the corner, where he ordered a bottle of good wine; and while we drank together, he asked me if I would consent to keep the package he had with him until one of his cousins came to claim it. To prevent any mistake, this cousin was to say certain words a countersign, as it were.
Amphibious, you can walk like a postman move to the front, and proclaim the magical word, 'loyalty; 'tis a standing countersign, ready furnished to my hands by mine hosts the colonel; your road is then clear before you but hark " Manual made an eager step forward, when, recollecting himself, he turned, and added: "My assistants, the seamen! I can do nothing without them."
"Then advance infantry and give the countersign." "Grant and Victory," replied Dick in a loud, clear voice. A laugh came from the steamer, and the rough voice said again: "Let the detachment advance again, and holding up its hands, show itself." Dick paddled closer and, steadying himself as well as he could, threw up his hands.
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