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Updated: May 22, 2025
Dale was deep in thought choosing the words with which he would tell the good news to the "fellows" on the morrow, his mother was busying herself with the "biggest" dumpling, when a peremptory knock came at the door. With a quick cry Mrs. Lynch dropped her spoon why should anything intrude upon their joy this night?
These grants of five thousand acres to members of the Executive Council were in direct violation of the instructions framed by the Home Government for the regulation of land-granting in Upper Canada. They continued to be made down to 1807, when they were stopped by a peremptory order to that effect from the Colonial Secretary.
Sir Halliday Macartney is not a man to be lightly turned from his purpose, and to this vague response he spoke in peremptory terms: "The matter is of the first importance. I must see the Lar Wang. Take me to him." Then the servant of the Taeping leader did a strange thing.
He had for months spent his days poring over the books, fabricating and maturing a false balance-sheet. Suspecting that the cashier was watching him, he one day handed him his dismissal, polite but peremptory, and went on cooking his accounts with surpassing dignity.
And, even as it was, had she been assertive to any degree he would not have been so peremptory; and had she been a stronger character more practical and less imaginative she would have made more use of her position in his heart to influence him.
Then came the hope of salvation; the mysterious epistle, signed with the enigmatical scarlet device; the clear, peremptory directions; the parting from the Comte de Tournay, which had torn the poor wife's heart in two; the hope of reunion; the flight with her two children; the covered cart; that awful hag driving it, who looked like some horrible evil demon, with the ghastly trophy on her whip handle!
He stood up, lighted the lamp, saw that all was well in the office and took his hat. A peremptory knock sounded on the door of the rear room. "Open up there, Martinez," a voice commanded. He stole thither, listened. "Who is it?" he asked. "Never mind. Open this door or I'll pull it down," came in hoarse tones he recognized as Burkhardt's.
The emperor declared his resolution of employing the troops and treasures of Europe in the orthodox cause; and signified, by a concise and peremptory epistle to his brother Constantius, that unless he consented to the immediate restoration of Athanasius, he himself, with a fleet and army, would seat the archbishop on the throne of Alexandria.
The canoe, meanwhile, had crept up to within her own length of the chase, and oaths and exclamations of mutual encouragement were freely mingled with peremptory orders to the fugitives to surrender, and threats of the punishment awaiting them when caught; but no sooner was the sail set than the boat drew rapidly away, and in ten minutes more the canoe, with its occupants still paddling furiously out to sea, was invisible.
A peremptory order had had the astonishing effect of silencing her, and a further command had set her bustling to help her mistress. Once immediate needs had been attended to, the man told his story briefly, and added his interpretation of the scene he had just witnessed.
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