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All our friends in Detroit had congratulated us upon our good fortune in being spared the voyage in one of the little schooners which at this time afforded the ordinary means of communication with the few and distant settlements on Lakes Huron and Michigan. Each one had some experience to relate of his own or Of his friends' mischances in these precarious journeys long detentions on the St.
Some papers intimated that her husband was a brute, who had forsaken her; others, that by a series of mischances she had been compelled to the stage to support a husband and numerous dependent relations.
We found them both fast asleep in their chairs; but Nicholas quickly awakened them, and some explanations ensued, which did not at first appear very clear and satisfactory to either magistrate or attorney, but in the end they agreed to accompany us on the expedition, Master Potts declaring it would compensate him for all his mischances if he could arrest Mother Demdike."
Is there anything new in all this? Is not this ignorance the cause of all the mistakes and mischances of men since the human race began? . . ." "This is all I have to say to you, and even this against the grain. Why? Because you have not stirred my spirit. For what can I see in you to stir me, as a spirited horse will stir a judge of horses? Your body? That you maltreat. Your dress?
He must wait for the disposition of those until he had learned the result of the operation. He heard from Clare on an evening when he was sitting on his lonely porch, twisting his dextrous cigarettes, and brooding darkly on the mischances that had overtaken him of late.
The term of office of government officials should be lengthened or shortened; the number of members in governing bodies should be increased or decreased; there should be direct primaries, referendum, recall, government by commission; powers should be shifted here and there with a hope of meeting obvious mischances all too familiar in the past.
One morning, as the two young men were lounging on the sun-warmed grass at the foot of one of the slanting pines of the Villa Mondragone, Roderick delivered himself of a tissue of lugubrious speculations as to the possible mischances of one's genius. "What if the watch should run down," he asked, "and you should lose the key?
They had not arrived till late, missing again, by a series of mischances, the scouts Marjorie had posted; and, on discovering their danger, had further discovered the house to be already watched. They judged it better, therefore, as Marjorie said in her letter, to feign unconsciousness of any charge against them, since there was no priest in the house who could incriminate them.
Reinstatement Further Solicitation Promotion Napoleon and Elisa Occupations in Paris Return to Ajaccio Disorders in Corsica Buonaparte a French Jacobin Expedition against Sardinia Course of French Affairs Paoli's Changed Attitude Estrangement of Buonaparte and Paoli Mischances in the Preparations against Sardinia Failure of the French Detachment Buonaparte and the Fiasco of the Corsican Detachment His Commission Lapses Further Developments in France Results of French Victory England's Policy Paoli in Danger Denounced and Summoned to Paris.
In return for this confidence he gives a detailed account of the caravan and its mischances of the great final misfortune, which explains to them why its owner and himself had been forced to take to the Staked Plain, and were there wandering about, helpless fugitives. To his narrative all three eagerly listen.
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