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There were seventy-three Contents, and fifty-three Not Contents. Thirty-six of the minority protested against the decision of the House. The next great trial of strength was on the question whether the bill should be read a second time. The debate was diversified by a curious episode.
During this period of six months no less than five hundred and sixty-five deaths are recorded under the head of 'morbi vanie. In other words, those men died without having received sufficient medical attention for the determination of even the name of the disease causing death. During the month of August fifty-three cases and fifty-three deaths are recorded as due to marasmus.
Such are "The Man of the Hill," in Tom Jones; "The History of Melopoyn the Playwright" in Roderick Random; the "Memoirs of a Lady of Quality," occupying fifty-three thousand words, in Peregrine Pickle; "The Philosophic Vagabond," in the Vicar of Wakefield; and "Wandering Willie's Tale," in Redgauntlet.
You wish to follow her life backward from the present hour to the year fifty-three?" "I do." "She was married to your uncle last June twelvemonth, in the midsummer of fifty-seven. She had lived in my house a little more than thirteen months. She became a member of my household upon the fourteenth of May, in the year fifty-six." "And she came to you "
"Where is it?" "A hundred and fifty-three, York Street, Covent Garden. First floor." "Very well," I said. "I'll meet you there at twelve o'clock. I can't come sooner because I've got a story to write." Twelve had just struck when I walked up York Street looking for No. 153. The house was brilliantly lighted on the first floor.
To the Louvre Louis XVIII. added one hundred and eleven pictures, at a cost of about $132,000; Charles X., twenty-four, at $12,000; Louis Philippe, fifty-three, at $14,500; and Napoleon III., thus far, thirty paintings, costing $200,000, one of which, the Murillo, cost $125,000. Russia is following in the same path.
"Yes, sire," replied Dumouriez, "and I should leave with joy this fearful city, if I had not a feeling of the dangers impending over your majesty. Deign to listen to me, sire; I am never destined to see you again. I am fifty-three years of age, and have much experience. They abuse your conscience with respect to the decree against the priests, and are pushing you on to civil war.
When morning came we found ourselves running northwest through a poor, pine-barren country that strongly resembled that we had traversed in coming to Savannah. The more we looked at it the more familiar it became, and soon there was no doubt we were going back to Andersonville. By noon we had reached Millen eighty miles from Savannah, and fifty-three from Augusta.
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