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Hy! uncle!" cried William to Merton, who turned instantly and came toward them. "George wants to speak to you," said William, and shot like a cross-bow bolt behind the house. "That is lucky," said Merton, "for I want to speak to you." "Who would have thought of his being about?" muttered George. While George was calling up his courage and wits to open his subject, Mr.
"I am his daughter, sir," said she; "he has claimed me from Mr. Bartley this day." At that word the man took off his hat to her. "Let me down this instant; there's a plot to fire the mine, and destroy my dear father." "A plot to fire the mine!" said the man, all aghast. "Why, who by? Hy! cage ready there!" "One Burnley, but he's bribed by a stranger.
In 1887 Grevy resigned, in consequence of a scandal in high circles, and was succeeded hy Sadi-Carnot, grandson of a famous general of the first republic. Under the new president two striking events took place. General Boulanger managed to lift himself into great prominence, and gain a powerful following in France.
Molineux's Log, of the 29th April. The incident is not mentioned by Cook. "Punished Hy. Jeffs, Seaman, with a dozen lashes for ill-behaviour on shore.
Hudson had gone into the mate's cabin. Wylie waited a minute, then hailed again. "Hy! on deck there!" "Hullo!" cried the captain, at last. "Why didn't you come in the cutter?" The captain crossed his arms and leaned over the stern. "Don't you know that Hiram Hudson is always the last to leave a sinking ship?" "Well, you are the last," said Wylie. "So now come on board the long-boat at once.
"Hy, yi, old Pickaroon!" came a child's shrill voice from a mill window. "There's a tramp under your tree." The old man raised his head from his work at the rack. "You must not come on dis place," he cried, with a strong French-Canadian accent. "Who says so?" inquired the stranger, putting his back against the tree and stretching out his legs. "I Etienne Provancher."
So I repeated my message; and yesterday morning Hy Teetzel, homeward bound from Buckhorn in his tin Lizzie, brought the long-expected reply out to me. It read: "Would advise consulting my ranch manager on the matter mentioned in your wire," and was signed "Alicia Newland."
Suppose we catechise the forecastle. Hy! Fok'sel!" "Sir!" "Send a man aft; the oldest seaman aboard." "Ay, ay, sir." There was some little delay; and then a sailor of about sixty slouched aft, made a sea scrape, and, removing his cap entirely, awaited the captain's commands. "My man," said the captain, "I want you to answer a question.
In both you get the sense of being at the limits of the world, of having beyond you only nonmaterial and magical realms: Peng-lai in the East, Hy Brasil in the West; the Fortunate Islands of the Sunset, and the Fortunate Islands of the Dawn.
He proposed to join the laws of excise to those of the customs; that the further subsidy of three farthings per pound charged upon imported tobacco, should be still levied at the custom-house, and payable to his majesty's civil list as heretofore; that then the tobacco should be lodged in warehouses, to be appointed for that purpose by the commissioners of the excise; that the keeper of each warehouse, appointed likewise hy the commissioners, should have one lock and key, and the merchant-importer have another; and that the tobacco should be thus secured until the merchant should find vent for it, either by exportation or home consumption; that the part designed for exportation should be weighed at the customhouse, discharged of the three farthings per pound which had been paid at its first importation, and then exported without further trouble; that the portion destined for home consumption should, in presence of the warehouse-keeper, be delivered to the purchaser, upon his paying the inland duty of fourpence per pound weight, to the proper officer appointed to receive it; by which means the merchant would be eased of the inconvenience of paying the duty upon importation, or of granting bonds and finding sureties for the payment, before he had found a market for the commodity; that all penalties and forfeitures, so far as they formerly belonged to the crown, should for the future be applied to the use of the public; that appeals in this, as well as in all other cases relating to the excise, should be heard and determined by two or three of the judges, to be named by his majesty; and in the country, by the judge of assize upon the next circuit, who should hear and determine such appeals in the most summary manner, without the formality of proceedings in courts of law or equity.
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