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Those movements were so suspicious that his imprisonments had been frequent. The pedlar soon disposed of a considerable part of the contents of his pack to the ladies, telling the news while he displayed his goods. "Have you any other news, friend?" asked Captain Wharton, in a pause, venturing to thrust his head without the curtains.
If you should chance to look in between your many imprisonments and find me out, you will know I am away on the Firm's business, livening up the racing establishments of the Right Honble Sir , Bart. Bart. No one knows anything about this at No. 94." If the outer door of Michaelis's office was locked how could Miss Kenney be expected to call and find this note awaiting her?
Now that the time had come he could not make up his mind what to do, or with whom to side. He was evidently cowed. His three imprisonments lay heavily upon his soul. He knew the power of England better too than most of his adherents, and shrank from measuring his own strength against it. What he did not realize was that it was too late now to go back.
The penalties were gross cruel whippings, imprisonments, barbarous puttings to death. The High Marshal held the unruly down with a high hand. But other factors than this Draconian code worked at last toward order in this English West. Dale was no small statesman, and he played ferment against ferment. Into Virginia now first came private ownership of land.
The refractory states were dissolved, and arrests and imprisonments were multiplied in all quarters. Vander Noot, who had escaped to England, soon returned to the Netherlands, and established a committee at Breda, which conferred on him the imposing title of agent plenipotentiary of the people of Brabant.
Surely a plan of this description would be infinitely better than continued imprisonments for miserable offences, and much less expensive, too! I am very anxious to emphasise this point. The extent of our prison population depends upon the treatment these young men receive at the hands of the State.
His imprisonments, though frequent, were not long; and his escapes from the guardians of the law easy, compared to what he endured from the persecution of the military.
The students made their comments on the affair. Their information came from the janitor, who had it from a servant in Santo Tomas, who had it from an usher. They prognosticated future suspensions and imprisonments, even indicating who were to be the victims naturally the members of the association.
Subsequently the Catholics had contrived to acquire and keep the municipal ascendency, secretly supported by Archduke Albert, and much oppressing the Protestants with imprisonments, fines, and banishment, until a new revolution which had occurred in the year 1610, and which aroused the wrath of Spinola.
No one, especially, would have held any such secret for months, and then divulged it in the ambiguous mode of a romance, while arbitrary arrests and unexplained imprisonments were making the once free States of the Old Union a second Venice.
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