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"It air a man trying to get by without the countersign." The first horseman moved a little to one side. "Come here, sergeant! Have you got a light? Wait, I will strike a match." He struck it, and it flared up, making for an instant a space of light. Both the sergeant and Billy saw his face.
"Halt! Who's go dar?" "F-f-friend with the c-c-countersign," retorted I, with chilly, but conciliatory energy, rising at full length out of the shallow water, to show myself a man and a brother. "Ac-vance, friend, and give de countersign," responded the literal soldier, who at such a tune would have accosted: a spirit of light or goblin damned with no other formula.
Father Luke halted, while a muttered "Blessed Virgin" announced his state of fear and trepidation. "D'Array, I say, what are we to do." "The countersign," said the sentry, whose figure they could perceive in the dim distance of about thirty yards.
"Halt!" commanded the guard when Bob had approached within a few feet of him. "Give the countersign." Bob whispered the magic word. "The countersign is correct," said the sentry, bringing his carbine to a carry. "It's you, is it, Owens? What's the matter?" "Advance, squad," said Bob in a low tone.
The Council of Workmen's and Soldiers' Deputies acted on the principle of a direct mandate from the whole people. It issued orders to revolutionary democracy, as we saw. It insisted on the exercise of a real control, even on the right to countersign, as it were, some of the orders of the Provisional Government.
Now, blackey, had it been Captain Lawton he would not have sent you here, close to a sentinel, without the countersign; for you might get a pistol bullet through your head, and that would be cruel to you; for although you be black, I am none of them who thinks niggers have no souls." "Sure a nagur has as much sowl as a white," said Betty.
Nothing of consequence was ever found to justify the golden legends of the monks, but in the mean time the money-diggers gave great offence. The canons, naturally alarmed for the safety of their fabulous treasure, had forced the guard, by surreptitiously obtaining the countersign from a certain official of the town.
That the Army would have obeyed the orders of the National Assembly is probable, when it is considered that Bonaparte had to look eight days all over Paris to find two generals Baraguay d'Hilliers and St. Jean d'Angley who declared themselves ready to countersign the order cashiering Changamier.
Leaving his own quarters about nine o'clock, with his cross-bow over his shoulder, Réné walked with an unconcerned air, but with a beating heart, directly to the main gate of the fort, at which he was challenged by the sentinel on duty there. Réné gave the countersign, and was recognized by the soldier, who, however, firmly refused to allow him to pass.
In addition to these resources, her income was also considerably increased by gratuities, bribes from contracting parties, and edicts created in her favour; the last of which were peculiarly obnoxious to Sully, from the fact of their harassing the people without any national benefit; and it was accordingly with great reluctance, and frequently not without expostulation, that he was induced to countersign these documents.
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