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Updated: May 3, 2025
On the 16th May, 1881, a native, named Frederick Molepo, was examined by the Royal Commission. The following are extracts from his examination: Yes. Half-a-year. "How do you know that you were a slave? Might you not have been an apprentice? No, I was not apprenticed. "How do you know? They got me from my parents, and ill-treated me. Every day. They sold me. "How much did they sell you for?
"Hillo, what are these curious little imps about?" exclaimed one of the midshipmen, as we were running towards them. "Imp?" exclaimed Dicky. "You would look like an imp if you had been made to hoe in the fields all day long with the sun right overhead for the best part of half-a-year. I am an officer like yourself, and will not stand an insult, that I can tell you!"
With the conclusion of the school-year, my study of singing also ended, and I returned home with the intention of persuading my parents to permit me to enter the opera that means, to become a singer. More than half-a-year I fought at home with pleas and tears, but in vain. My father was wonderfully patient and kind to me.
Now, with many of you, your confirmation is little more than three months distant; when we next meet at Christ's table, it will have passed by nearly half-a-year.
That is the only person I ever hated from the first sight, hated and dreaded in a way I could not possibly explain." "But why do you mention him?" asked Waymark. "What is his name?" "His name is Edwards," returned Ida, pronouncing it as if the sound excited loathing in her. "I had been living in this way for nearly half-a-year, when one day this man called and came up to my sitting-room.
True enough, by filing the Twenty-one Demands on China in 1915 when the war was hardly half-a-year old and by forcing China's assent to all Shantung questions under the threat of an Ultimatum, Japan had reversed the Portsmouth Treaty procedure and apparently settled the issues at stake for all time; nevertheless the Chinese hoped when the facts were properly known to the world that this species of diplomacy would not be endorsed, and that indeed the Shantung question could be reopened.
Brownlow, 'were a naval officer retired from active service, whose wife had died some half-a-year before, and left him with two children there had been more, but, of all their family, happily but two survived. They were both daughters; one a beautiful creature of nineteen, and the other a mere child of two or three years old. 'What's this to me? asked Monks. 'They resided, said Mr.
"I was here eighteen months it was a wild sort of life, and just suited my fancy; but when I found I had some money to receive, I thought a spree in town would be a nice change, so off I marched. My spree lasted as long as my money, and then I went as barman to a public-house at Clare, some way up the country here I got better wages and better board, and stopped about half-a-year.
They remembered that the infirmity of a lifetime was not to be wholly cured in half-a-year; and that they must expect some recurrence of her old malady at times when there was no immediate appeal to her magnanimity, and no present cause for anxiety for those in whom she forgot herself.
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