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One or two articles yet remained capable of being turned into small sums, and these she now disposed of at a neighbouring pawnbroker's the same she had previously visited on the occasion of pawning one or two of the things, the tickets for which Harriet Casti had so carefully inspected. She spoke to no one of her position.
During the early years of my administration Santo Domingo was in its usual condition of chronic revolution. There was always fighting, always plundering; and the successful graspers for governmental power were always pawning ports and custom-houses, or trying to put them up as guarantees for loans.
We only kept alive by pawning all we'd got, stick by stick. And when the last thing had gone to the devil we borrowed a bit on the pawn-ticket." The old woman had to pause to recover her breath. "Why are we hurrying like this?" she said, panting. "Any one would think the world was trying to run away from us!" "Well, there was nothing left!" she continued, shuffling on again.
However, after pawning the brooch I expect Jessop lost sight of Krill till he must have come across him a few days before the crime. Then he must have made Krill sign the paper ordering the jewels to be given up by Pash, so that he might get money." "A kind of blackmail in fact." "Well," said Hurd, doubtfully, "after all, Jessop might have killed Krill himself."
Thus, while the duke was making great military preparations far invading France without means; pawning his own property to get bread for his starving veterans, and hanging those veterans whom starving had made. mutinous, he was depicted, to the most suspicious and unforgiving mortal that ever wore a crown, as a traitor and a rebel, and this while he was renouncing his own judicious and well-considered policy in obedience to the wild schemes of his master.
Of course the man who killed him, a gambler of the town, was fully exonerated at the inquest, and was never even indicted for the killing. The Indians' Admirers and Critics At School and After Indian Courtship and Marriage Extraordinary Dances Gambling by Instinct How "Cross-Eye" Lost his Pony Pawning a Baby Amusing and Degrading Scenes on Annuity Day.
Not far from him stood a very tall cornet, with thick moustaches and a highly-coloured complexion a noble fond of strong mead and hearty revelry. Behind them were many nobles who had equipped themselves, some with their own ducats, some from the royal treasury, some with money obtained from the Jews, by pawning everything they found in their ancestral castles.
Burket offered his guest a chair, the count took off his hat and laid it on the table. Burket contemplated the saddened dignity of his countenance with renewed interest entreating him to be seated, he resumed the conversation. "I see, sir, you do not understand the meaning of pledging, or pawning, for it is one and the same thing; but I will explain it in two words.
Well, then, all the world, at that time, was in a wild excitement about the Holy Sepulchre. All the great feudal lords in Europe were pledging their lands and pawning their plate to fit out men-at-arms so that they might join the grand armies of Christendom and win renown in the Holy Wars.
I remember to have been told that this was a characteristic annual celebration of the lower classes, anticipated with eagerness, and achieved with difficulty, indeed, often only through the alternative of pawning clothing and furniture to provide the means for this ephemeral transformation.
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