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For, as the ministers were obliged to meet Parliament on May 20 the day fixed for its reopening they were sure to be out-voted on a division, whereupon a crisis, not merely ministerial but national and international, would be precipitated. The consequences of such a conflict might be disastrous. Rather than wait for this eventuality the Cabinet tendered its resignation.
The crime for which this gentleman was out-voted by his own particular friends and admirers was, that he had given his vote for a grant of public money for the purpose of draining a most lamentable and unhealthy district, called "the dismal swamp!" One great boast of the country is, that they have no national debt, or that they shall have none in two years.
"Three of me have, but on each occasion the other five of me out-voted him." "You're sure six would be sufficient?" queried my mother, smiling. "Just the right number, Mrs. Kelver.
The Commissioners of France and Russia, who had been out-voted, brought an action against their colleagues on the grounds that the grant was ultra vires; and against the Egyptian Government for the return of the money thus wrongly obtained. Other actions were brought at French instigation by various people purporting to represent the bondholders, who declared that their interests were threatened.
"That does seem odd; just now " "Hark! Hear that? the old fellow has just said `Ocushlu! That's the name the other two gave the girl. What can it mean?" But now the youths' hurried dialogue is brought to an abrupt end. Annaqua has been out-voted, his authority set at nought, and the council broken up.
"What do you want?" he asked curtly, in a harsh voice; but for a time Maria made no reply, fear paralyzed her tongue. At last she found words, and deep anxiety was apparent in her question: "What has happened?" "The beginning of the end," he answered in a hollow tone. "They have out-voted you?" cried the young wife. "Baersdorp and the other cowards want to negotiate?"
"But your husband, Frau Maria, and mine I was talking with him on the way here will make every effort to prevent it. The two Seigneurs of Nordwyk are of their opinion, so perhaps the commissioner will be out-voted." "May God grant it!" cried the resolute voice of Wilhelm's mother.
For my part I believe that you are afraid of falling in love with that Glittering Lady and of being convinced by her that you are wrong in your most unsatisfactory conclusions." "I am out-voted anyway," said Bickley, "and for the rest, Bastin, look after yourself and leave me alone.
"Then the wrong done them was that they were out-voted?" Mr. Marshall said. "Put it so!" De Saussure replied, with heat; "we have a right to say we will govern ourselves and sail our own boat." "Yes, so I think we have," said the other. "Whether it is worth such a war, is another question, Such a war is a serious thing." "It would be mean-spirited to let our rights be taken from us," said Ransom.
Henry learned later that he was from Delaware, that he had earned the rank of major in the great French and Indian war, and that he was brave and efficient. He had opposed the planting of the colony on the river, but, being out-voted, he had accepted the will of the majority. Major Braithwaite acted with promptness.
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