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The Executive Departments were located in four brick edifices on the corners of the square, in the centre of which was the White House.
All quite hopelessly Victorian! for, after all, why should people ever think of anybody but themselves? Dr. Cumming was a great bee-fancier, and a recognised authority on bees. Calling one day on my mother, he brought with him four queen-bees of a new breed, each one encased in a little paper bag. He prided himself on his skill in handling bees, and proudly exhibited those treasures to my mother.
That he might do this with less reluctancy they were so kind as to put him out upon liking to three or four trades; but it happening unluckily that there was work to be done in all of them, Jones could not be brought to go apprentice to any, but idled on amongst his companions, without ever thinking of applying himself to any business whatever.
"Well, brother," replied the King of Naples, "I do not understand the indifference of your people towards your great reforms; for I have four times the number of Tuscan families settled in my States that you have of Neapolitan families in yours."
The folding doors at the bottom of the hall were cast wide, and preceded by the major domo with his wand, and four domestics bearing blazing torches, the guests of the evening entered the apartment, followed by their attendants, and, at a more humble distance, by a pilgrim, wearing the sandals and broad hat of the palmer.
When I had gone about twenty-three miles, and made four horribly crooked crossings 'Without any rudder? 'Yes old Capt. Tom appeared on the roof and began to find fault with me for running such a dark night 'Such a DARK NIGHT ? Why, you said 'Never mind what I said, 'twas as dark as Egypt now, though pretty soon the moon began to rise, and
The habitues of three or four great American houses transferred themselves to the Scotts, who had three hundred persons at their first Wednesday. Their circle increased; there was a little of everything to be found in their set Americans, Spaniards, Italians, Hungarians, Russians, and even Parisians. When she had related her history to the Abbe Constantin, Mrs.
The army of Boulogne was composed of about one hundred and fifty thousand infantry and ninety thousand cavalry, divided into four principal camps, the camp of the right wing, the camp of the left wing, the camp of Wimereux, and the camp of Ambleteuse.
"Well, it does look like it," rejoined Arkwright, showing even deeper interest. "I haven't seen them for four or five years. They used to live in our town. The mother was a little sweet-faced woman with young eyes and prematurely white hair." "That describes my Mrs. Greggory exactly," cried Billy's eager voice. "And the daughter?" "Alice? Why as I said, it's been four years since I've seen her."
M. Camusot's father's money was not likely to come to them for a long time; and, rich as he was, he would scarcely leave more than eight or ten thousand francs a year to each of his children, four in number, for he had been married twice. And besides, by the time that all "expectations," as matchmakers call them, were realized, would not the magistrate have children of his own to settle in life?
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