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"If she deys in my 'ouse, good sir, w'oat then?" "You mean the expense?" "Just so-it 'll be nae trifle, ye kno'!" The host shakes his head, doubtingly. Tom begs he will not be troubled about that, and gives another assurance from his purse that quite relieves the host's apprehensions. A low, heavy breathing, followed by a return of spasms, bespeaks the sinking condition of the sufferer.
One of the charges that have been made against the Imperial system is, that it is a stratocracy, a mere government by the sword, and that it must pass away with the Emperor himself, or be continued in the person of some military man; so that France must degenerate into a vast Algiers, and be ruled by a succession of Deys.
The Dey agreed to the first two demands and released the Ionian slaves as British subjects, but declined all promises as to the abolition of slavery. Leaving that matter in abeyance, Exmouth sailed on to Tripoli and Tunis, whose Deys he found more amenable to reason, and who consented to make declarations in the form demanded by the British Admiral upon all three points.
Anything was preferable to the yoke of a succession of incapable and inglorious tyrants, raised to power, like the Deys of Barbary, by military revolutions recurring at short intervals. Lambert seemed likely to be the first of these rulers; but within a year Lambert might give place to Desborough, and Desborough to Harrison.
The ruffianly Deys made little attempt to conceal the piratical nature of their proceedings, and became a perfect scourge not only to the mariners of all nations in the Mediterranean, but also to the unfortunate inhabitants of its shores.
When this was turned against the natives advancing in compact array, it literally tore through masses of living flesh until scores of men were killed. Even so the Deys might have won the engagement if they had not stopped too soon to gather plunder. As it was, they were forced to retreat.
I knows you of old, honey you's up to dese 'ere things you know you allus was mighty 'chevious, and I isn't gwine to b'lieve dat dat ar little speck makes all the difference no such thing, case it don't deys either both O's or both Q's. I'm clar o' dat deys either one or tother."
The last still continue to reign; but the Deys of Algiers have given place to the French, and the Bey of Tunis is under French tutelage. Except during the temporary excitement of a change of dynasty, the rule of these African princes was generally mild and enlightened.
Now, there are folks about here that complain that old Madam Littlepage and her young ladies don't visit the poor." "Vell, if deys be hard-hearted, und hast no feelin's for der poor and miseraple " "No, no; that is not what I mean, neither. As for that sort of poor, everybody allows they do more for them than anybody else about here. But they don't visit the poor that isn't in want."
Among these Barbary Powers the Deys of Algiers had long been the most powerful and the most truculent. Keppel demanded an interview with the Dey, and went ashore to the palace without a guard, and stated his business in very plain terms. The Dey wondered at the presumption of King George in sending a beardless boy as his ambassador.
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