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You will understand, General, that at the age of eighty-six, after serving served my country well for sixty years, without the least interruption, not counting the time of emigration, chased from every place, I have been obliged to take refuge here, to subsist on the scanty succour given by the English Government to the French emigrant. I say emigrant because I have been forced to be one.
At seven hundred and eighty-six feet the gauge stopped moving, and a slight jar told all on board that the submarine was again on the ocean floor. "Now to look for the wreck!" exclaimed Tom. "And it will be a real search this time. We know we are starting right." "Are you going to put on diving suits and walk around looking for her?" asked Ned. "No, that would take too long," answered Tom.
The naval policy with which Louis XVI. began his reign was kept up to the end; in 1791, two years after the assembly of the States-General, the French navy numbered eighty-six ships-of-the-line, generally superior, both in dimensions and model, to English ships of the same class.
"'Now yer talkin', says Burns. 'Just hand me eighty-six dollars due fer lumber on them new stalls you claim to own em. "'A-he-m! says the judge. 'That's a different matter. The Agricultural Society is responsible for those stalls. The man you should see about your claim is Alf Dingle. I happen to know there is a certain sum of money in the treasury and I kind of think Alf will pay this claim.
The others, filled with dead and wounded, drifted ashore. In this brief but terrific struggle there were only two Americans killed and seven wounded, while the enemy acknowledged a loss of thirty-four killed and eighty-six wounded, the former including the leader of the expedition.
Can a woman stick to a man through sixty-odd years and keep his linen and his broadcloth and bear him children and make them into fine wives and husbands and take them back to her bosom when their mates turn against them and raise a bunch of riotous grandchildren and manage such a household as ours with never a complaint get up at five o'clock every morning and sit up till half-after nine o'clock every night busy all the time and nurse her own and other folks' ailments without a murmur and submerge self completely in her constant doing for others can a frail woman so live for eighty-six years and be anything less than good?
I went round in eighty-six the other day." Reggie sighed enviously. "Women are wonderful!" he said. "Well, I'll be legging it and fetching the car. When you're ready, stroll along down the road and wait for me." When he had gone Maud pulled a small newspaper clipping from her pocket. She had extracted it from yesterday's copy of the Morning Post's society column.
He died shortly afterward, at the advanced age of eighty-six, seventy of which had been passed as an honest and faithful servant at the Abbey. Colonel Wildman had him decently interred in the church of Hucknall Torkard, near the vault of Lord Byron. The anecdotes I had heard of the quondam housekeeper of Lord Byron, rendered me desirous of paying her a visit.
O ye ascetics, the great Vyasa hath composed one hundred and eighty-six sections in this Parva. The number of slokas also composed in this by the great Rishi is six thousand, six hundred and ninety-eight. "Then is recited the Bhishma Parva replete with wonderful incidents. In this hath been narrated by Sanjaya the formation of the region known as Jambu.
Even with an assistant, however, MacDowell found his labours very far from being light. For these no less than eighty-six students were registered; and in the following year, fifty-two students were registered in one of the courses.
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