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Cranstoun's orders, and was innocently the instrument of death, as they say, to the best of fathers; brought disgrace to my family, and shameful death to myself, unless my hard case, here truly repented, recommends me to Royal pity, clemency and compassion.
He had been greatly upset when, about an hour ago, the maid-of-all-work had informed him that the police were in the house, that they would allow no one except the persons lodging in the house to enter it, and no one, once in, would be allowed to leave. How long these orders would hold good Theodore did not know.
Disdaining to imitate the servility of those who, dying by the orders of Nero, yet made him their heir, and filled their wills with encomiums on the tyrant and his favourites, he broke to pieces a goblet of precious stones, out of which he had commonly drank, that Nero, who he knew would seize upon it after his death, might not have the pleasure of using it.
"She has not declared that she loves your brother; we may guess wrongly in this matter. They are your words not mine." "And we may guess rightly. What then?" "Then," answered Masouda, "there are many knightly Orders, or monasteries, for those who desire such places as you do in your heart. Nay, talk no more of all these things that may or may not be.
For, just in the same way, suddenly after dinner, she looked at him and said: "Teddy, don't you think you could take a night off from your doctor's orders and go with Nancy to the Casino. The poor child has had her visit so spoiled." He looked at her in turn for a long, balancing minute. "Why, yes," he said at last. Nancy jumped out of her chair and kissed him.
The station-master stepped out to the platform, summoned an inspector, and gave a few brief orders. Slowly the saloon was backed out of the station again on to a neglected siding, a sort of backwater for spare carriages and empty trucks, an ignominious resting place, indeed, after its splendid journey through the night.
A cry of terror broke from the tavern frequenters, but in another moment this was exchanged for others of relief and welcome, when man after man entered and proved himself to be none other than an invincible. "How, now, Leftenant Buntling?" demanded Bagby, in an attempt to regain his dignity. "What is the meaning of this return without orders?"
Following his usual tactics, Partab Singh returned no answer to the communication, and Gerrard was therefore proceeding under orders which left him with a curious combination of strict instructions and wide discretion.
He had been employed on the transports Prah, Montcalm, Knight Bachelor, Montezuma, and Rosetta, all engaged in transporting horses and mules to the British army in South Africa. He testified that the transports were in charge of regular officers of the English army and that from them all orders were received.
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