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Towards the end of November, four camels were procured, an Abban was engaged, we hired two women cooks and a fourth servant; my baggage was reformed, the cloth and tobacco being sewn up in matting, and made to fit the camels' sides ; sandals were cut out for walking, letters were written, messages of dreary length, too important to be set down in black and white, were solemnly entrusted to us, palavers were held, and affairs began to wear the semblance of departure.
For my men are weary, having hunted in the forest, and my chiefs do not like long palavers concerning law." "That may be," said Ahmet, calmly. "But when my lord calls you to palaver you must obey, otherwise I take you, I and my strong men, to the Village of Irons, there to rest for a while to my lord's pleasure."
Thus we find, that on the day subsequent to that on which John Lander had written his rhapsody on the agreeables of Badagry, the noise and jargon of their guests pursued them even in their sleep, and their dreams were disturbed by fancied palavers, which were more unpleasant and vexatious, if possible, in their effects than real ones.
The explorers found many shoals and shifting sands before entering the estuary; in the evening they stopped at the Ogobe confluence, where a French seaman was employed in custom- house duties. M. de Compiegne, after attending many palavers, was duly upset when returning to the ship.
Was it a woman who slew B'chumbiri? so that she is not present at this palaver. Lo, then I go to hold council with women!" M'gobo's face was all distorted like a man stricken with paralysis. "Tibbetti!" he said, "I slew B'chumbiri according to custom and I will answer to Sandi, who is a man, and understands such palavers."
"Ain't it plum foolish-like o' them two gesabes to go flyin' up in the air like two he-hens on a hot plate for nothin' in the world but because a neat lookin' feemale woman has looked at 'em some soft? "We has two or three more palavers with the Signorita Esperanza and stacks the deck to beat the harbor police and the Customs people an' all, an' to nip down the coast with our contraband.
"Why ain't you in the barracks having one of your quiet palavers with Mrs Beaudesart?" he asked. "Prithee be silent, boy; I profit not by thy talk," I murmured. "Something I wanted to ask you, Collins," he resumed; "but I'm beggared if I can think what it is. Slipped away like a snake, while you're looking round for a stick.
"I only wish to say, sir," said Bones, "that during the period I have had the honour to serve under your command I have settled possibly more palavers of a distressingly ominous character than the average Commissioner is called upon to settle in the course of a year." "As you have created most of the palavers yourself," said Hamilton unkindly, "I do not deny this.
Passing home to England, this time in a gloomy condition of mind, shortly after these humiliations, he was just issuing from Osnabruck by the Eastern Gate, when Maillebois's people entered by the Western, the ugly shoes of them insulting his kibes in this manner. And a furious Anti-Walpole Parliament, most perturbed of National Palavers, is waiting him at St. James's.
There were defects in the situation; she did not need other people to tell her that; she was often overwhelmed with the multitude of her duties, at her wits' end to manage all the children. "I have only three girls at present," she writes, "and I have nine babies, and what with the washing and the school and the palavers and the visitors, you may be sure there are no drones in this house."
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