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'They have Captain Beauchamp's address hung up there, I have heard, said Mrs. Lespel. 'There may be other things another address, though it is not yet, placarded. Come with me. For fifteen years I have never once put my head into that room, and now I 've a superstitious fear about it. Mrs.
B. Wedgington at the Theatre, who had placarded the town with the admonition, 'DON'T FORGET IT! I made the house, according to my calculation, four and ninepence to begin with, and it may have warmed up, in the course of the evening, to half a sovereign. There was nothing to offend any one, the good Mr. Baines of Leeds excepted. Mrs. B. Wedgington sang to a grand piano. Mr.
It was essential that they should not be heard by the neighbors; they had succeeded in muffling the hollow blows of the ink-rollers, alternating with the rapid sound of the printing blankets. In a few hours fifteen hundred copies were pulled, and at daybreak they were placarded at the corners of the streets.
Walls were placarded with incendiary appeals and their press was full of calls to arms. The result of this firmness was that the leaders countermanded the demonstration, and there can be no doubt that many lives were saved and a new point gained in the possibility of governing Paris as a free city, yet one where order must be preserved, votes or no votes.
We are all so utterly fooled by this man whom all the world took to be a dolt. On Tuesday morning he arrested seventy-eight of the Representatives. When Paris awoke, the streets had been placarded in the night with the decree of the President of the Republic. The National Assembly was dissolved. The Council of State was dissolved. Martial law was declared. And why?
The press, which the premier reported was irritated by his censorship the press which must have sensation, the traffic of its trade should have a detailed account of how one of our indomitable regiments placarded a private as coward, proving thereby that the army was a unit of aggressive zeal. "You are alone one man in a million in your ideas!" he declared, with judicial gravity.
In fact, I believe that it had been publicly placarded and advertised that I had accepted the invitation to attend, which had been sent to me by the Committee, and I was, therefore, expected. The Chairman having, in an appropriate speech, briefly opened the meeting, I stood forward to move the resolutions, which I prefaced by a speech of about an hour in length.
The public buildings were placarded with the news of Heraclian's victory; and groups of loungers expressed, loudly enough, their utter indifference as to who might rule at Rome or even at Byzantium. Let Heraclian or Honorius be emperor, the capitals must be fed; and while the Alexandrian wheat-trade was uninjured, what matter who received the tribute?
The prytanes, previous to the meeting of the assembly, always placarded in some public place a programme of the matters on which the people were to consult. Every effort was made to compel a numerous attendance, and each man attending received a small coin for his trouble , a practice fruitful in jests to the comedians. The prytanes might forbid a man of notoriously bad character to speak.
The whole country-side was placarded with huge bills, offering 100 pounds reward for the capture of the criminal dead or alive. While the vigilance of the watchers was such that in a single week they bagged a donkey, an old woman, and two amateur detectives.
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