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Waddell, a very fair linguist, replied in suitable but embarrassed terms, and asked for the source of the good lady's information. "Mais votre ordonnance, m'sieur!" was the reply. Tackled upon the subject, the "ordonnance" in question, Waddell's servant a shock-headed youth from Dundee admitted having communicated the information; and added "She's a decent body, sirr, the lady o' the hoose.
That officer found above three hundred men already landed, secured by two batteries and two ships of war, and in daily expectation of a further reinforcement from the marquis de Caylus, governor of Martinique; who had published an ordonnance, authorizing the subjects of the French king to settle the island of Tobago, and promising to defend them from the attempts of all their enemies.
"I wish your majesty to allow me assistance in the labors of the office of intendant." "That post would lose its value." "It would gain in security." "Choose your colleagues." "Messieurs Breteuil, Marin, Hervart." "To-morrow the ordonnance shall appear." "Sire, I thank you." "Is that all you ask?" "No, sire, one thing more." "What is that?" "Allow me to compose a chamber of justice."
On the 29th of April, detachments of Bossu's and of Berghen's "band of ordonnance" were sent into Valenciennes, together with a company of the Duke of Aerschot's regiment. The prisons were instantly filled to overflowing with men and women arrested for actual or suspected participation in the tumult.
M. Fouquet, who pays twenty thousand livres down when he need not pay more than five thousand, will easily find that million when your majesty demands it." "That is all very well; I will demand it," said Louis. "If your majesty will sign the ordonnance I will have the money got together myself." And Colbert pushed a paper before the king, and presented a pen to him.
Some prudence remaining to him, however, he contented himself in the first instance with drawing up an ordonnance, appointing a commission of inquiry, which was to investigate the question; this implied the acceptance of the miracles after a period of longer or shorter duration.
The next morning an ordonnance of the King was pasted all over the town, prohibiting the people, under heavy penalties, to assemble, and announcing that in consequence of the disturbances which had taken place the previous day at the bank, that establishment would remain closed until further notice, and no more money would be paid by it.
The supernatural here never becomes grossly palpable: the thrill is all the deeper for its action being indefinite, and its source vague and distant." By Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Emperor Nicholas has just published an ordonnance, which regulates the pensions to which Russian and foreign actors at the imperial theaters at St. Petersburgh shall be entitled.
"By setting the prisoners at liberty," he said, "the ordonnance falls to the ground." I did not wish to push things further just then. The liberation of the prisoners, and the quashing of the ordonnance, were determined on: some voices were for the reimbursement of the charges at the expense of the Intendant, and for preventing him to do the like again.
As we were about to rise, I said it would be as well to draw up the decree at once, and M. le Duc d'Orleans approved. Noailles pounced, like a bird of prey, upon paper and ink, and commenced writing. I bent down and read as he wrote. He stopped and boggled at the annulling of the ordonnance, and the prohibition against issuing one again without authorisation by edict or decree of council.
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