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At this hole the Gadfly was to creep out on to the hillside, and make his way in the dark to a lonely spot where Martini and a smuggler would be waiting for him.
Moreover, he had come to Devonshire to help the mistress in her trouble, when her baby was dead and her husband dying there; and ever since that time the big, awkward, silent man had been to Katie as much "one of the family" as was the lazy black cat which now ensconced itself upon his knee. Pasht, for his part, regarded Martini as a useful piece of household furniture.
I suppose Rivarez must have been startled, for he dropped his pistol-hand and put the other one up like this" laying the back of his left wrist across his eyes "and of course they all rushed on him." "I can't make that out," said Michele. "It's not like Rivarez to lose his head at a crisis." "Probably he lowered his pistol for fear of killing an unarmed man," Martini put in.
Caradosso was sent to conduct Martini from Siena, while Gaffuri, Professor of Music, escorted Fancelli from Mantua by the duke's orders, and both masters were richly rewarded for the pains and presented with silken vests and clothes for their servants over and above the pay to which they were entitled.
Next, being commissioned by the family of the Martini to paint a chapel in S. Marco in Florence, he wrought in fresco on the walls many stories of the Madonna, and on the panel the Virgin herself in the midst of many saints; and in the same church, over the Chapel of S. Giovanni Evangelista, belonging to the family of the Landi, he painted in fresco an Angel Raphael with Tobias.
"One more word and you get it!" "May I sing as I trifle with this frugal fare, dear friend? My heart is so happy that I should love to warble a few wild notes " He paused to watch his badgered victim dispose of a Martini. "I wonder," he mused, "if you'd like me to tell you what a cocktail before breakfast does to the lining of your stomach? Would you?" "No.
Fathers Mendoza, Ricci, Trigault, Visdelou, Lecomte, Verbiest, Navarrete, Schall, and Martini, deserve especial mention for having carried to China the arts and sciences of Europe, while they diffused in the west the first accurate and precise information upon the unprogressive civilization of the Flowery Land.
The arrival of the cocktails was the next happening of importance. "I say, Tacks," observed Monty, leaning back in his chair and sipping his Martini, "how are you getting on? Made up your mind what to do?" "No," shortly. "Going to fight, are you?" "No use. The confounded lawyers say I wouldn't have a show." "Humph! Low-down trick of the old woman's, wasn't it, giving you the shake that way?
"Do you think you didn't hurt the man you killed?" "The man I killed Ah, there is Cesare at the gate at last! I I must go!" When Martini came into the room he found the Gadfly lying alone with the untouched coffee beside him, swearing softly to himself in a languid, spiritless way, as though he got no satisfaction out of it.
The Ghoorkhas had sixty rounds per man for their Martini rifles, the Burmah men one hundred and sixty rounds per man for their Sniders. They were a pretty rough lot, only twenty of them being old soldiers, the rest recruits. "One morning we received news that Mr.
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