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They had been assigned to the same regiment -the forty-fourth. Their instructions called for them to start within forty-eight hours, and to wire acknowledgment of orders to Washington. The Forty-fourth United States Infantry was at that time in the far West, in a country that at times teemed with adventure for Uncle Sam's soldiers.
Miss Sarah Chillingly, the youngest of the three, and now just in her forty-fourth year, was looked upon by the others as "a dear thing, inclined to be naughty, but such a darling that nobody could have the heart to scold her." Miss Margaret said "she was a giddy creature." Miss Sibyl wrote a poem on her, entitled, "Warning to a young Lady against the Pleasures of the World."
To a degree that cannot be measured by words, the temple of justice will prove the city of refuge. "The judiciary has no guards, no palaces, no treasuries; no arms but truth and wisdom; and no splendor but justice." The forty-fourth Congress the first of which I was a member assembled December 6, 1875.
About the smile there was something that Winthrop found familiar, and, with one almost as attractive, he answered it. "I think we've met before, haven't we?" he asked pleasantly. Mannie nodded. "Yes, sir," he answered promptly. "At Sam Hepner's old place, on West Forty-fourth street." "Why, of course!" exclaimed the District Attorney. "Don't you don't you remember?" stammered Mannie eagerly.
The advertisements she had cut out were for cloak models. Within an hour after she left Forty-fourth Street, she found at Jeffries and Jonas, in Broadway a few doors below Houston, a vacancy that had not yet been filled though as a rule all the help needed was got from the throng of applicants waiting when the store opened.
Given under my hand, at the city of Washington, this 4th day of May, A.D. 1820, and forty-fourth year of the Independence of the United states. By the President: JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, Secretary of State. WASHINGTON, November 14, 1820.
Crossed by the sixty-first parallel, it is comprehended between the forty-fourth and the forty, seventh meridian.
Adamnan says that Columcille came to Caledonia "for the love of Christ's name", and well did his after-life prove the truth of this statement. He had attained his forty-fourth year when King Conall, his kinsman, bestowed Iona upon him and his brethren. The island, situated between the Dalriadans and the Picts of the Highlands, was conveniently placed for missionary work.
"Rose's eye glanced at John and I only wish, as I am a bachelor not further than my forty-fourth, that I may ever have the happiness to get such a glance from two blue eyes, as she gave him that moment a faint smile played about her mouth, and a slight blush lit up her fair cheek, like the evening sunbeams on the virgin snow, as the poets have said for the five-hundredth time, to my own personal knowledge.
She completed her toilet with her one good and unworn blouse plain white, the yoke gracefully pointed and with a blue neck piece she had been saving. She made a bundle of all her clothing that was fit for anything including the unworn batiste dress Jeffries and Jonas had given her. And into it she put the pistol she had brought away from Forty-fourth Street.
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