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'Bailie Macwheeble indeed holds an opinion that this honorary service is due, from its very nature, si petatur tantum; only if his Royal Highness shall require of the great tenant of the crown to perform that personal duty; and indeed he pointed out the case in Dirleton's Doubts and Queries, Grippit versus Spicer, anent the eviction of an estate ob non solutum canonem; that is, for non-payment of a feu-duty of three pepper-corns a year, whilk were taxt to be worth seven-eighths of a penny Scots, in whilk the defender was assoilzied.
Time only may reply to these queries, but the occasion which prompted them was, to say the least, extraordinary.
Nor is there any word for ``Why, but queries are signified by the inflexion of the voice. When he asked it why it was angry the gorilla said that men killed him, and added a noise that the professor said was evidently meant to allude to guns.
I could see this readily, by the way in which she tried to put me off, changing the conversation whenever I got on to the forbidden ground, and suggesting various irrelevant queries on my endeavouring again to chain her wilfully-erratic attention down to the one topic that I only thought worthy of interest. The feminine mind, I believe, delights in uncertainty.
His opposition to slavery is as fierce here as of old, but it takes various phases, sometimes sweeping against the hated system with a torrent of facts, sometimes battering it with a hard, cold logic, sometimes piercing it with deadly queries and suggestions, and sometimes, with his blazing hate of all oppression, biting and burning through every pro-slavery theory.
Springing inside he finds Padre Francisco, his eyes lit up with the courage of a gallant French gentleman. "They are all here," he gasps. "Safe?" queries Valois. "Yes." "Thank God!" Maxime cries. "Quick! Hurry them into the church. Hold the sacristy door." Maxime's two or three friends have followed him. The doors are closed behind them. The heavy adobe walls are shot-proof.
He says great Scott! this will please you, Gordon he says that there have been over two hundred queries for matter from papers all over the United States, and from Europe. Your paper beat them on the news, and now the home office is packed with San Francisco reporters, and the telegrams are coming in every minute, and they have been abusing him for not answering them, and he says that I'm a fool.
His appearance, however, did not bespeak a great fortune: he had an old grey hat, short old trousers, an old waistcoat with regimental buttons, and patched Blucher boots, such as are not usually sported by persons in easy life. "Ah!" says he, with a sigh, in reply to my queries, "times are changed since them days, Fitz-Boodle. My wife's not what she was the beautiful creature you knew her.
With that he suddenly jerked his leg free and sprang to his feet and streaked toward the savages, his blood-curdling panther-screech penetrating the heavier vibrations of the battle. He was lost to view in the brush and I had my work to do. I kept along the edge of the timber, and answered many anxious queries as to the fate of the right column.
He therefore approached, and endeavoured, by sundry queries, to elicit from him what the innuendo might mean; but Davie had no mind to explain, and had wit enough to make his folly cloak his knavery.
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