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In order to repress them, Napoleon left gendarmes and flying columns on the track of the army; and when these stragglers subsequently rejoined their corps, their knapsacks were examined by their officers; or, as was the case at Austerlitz, by their comrades; and strict justice was then executed among themselves.
The fellow got up scowling and told the lad to bring his bag. "You'll hear more about this," he rejoined and slouched off. Festing went back, and Helen started when he jumped across the ditch. His jacket was torn, his lip was cut, and his face was bruised. He looked dishevelled, but not at all embarrassed. In fact, there was a gleam of half-humorous satisfaction in his eyes.
The money my lawyer sent you for your own use just burned holes in your pinafore pockets, didn't it?" "I didn't wear pinafores, Uncle Dick," Betty said soberly. "Girls don't nowadays." "No, I see they don't," he rejoined, smiling broadly again. "But they did in my day. However, in whatever pocket you put that money as you got it, the hole was figuratively burned, wasn't it?"
The form of the irritable declaration caused Sylvia to view her companion with large eyes. "Now you're here you might as well take a lesson," went on the judge. "Try rowing a bit. If you're going to stay here you'll need to know how." "But I'm not going to stay here," rejoined Sylvia quickly. "Why not?"
A formidable force came and drove the Southern division before it, but the vigilant Jackson, informed by his scouts of what was happening behind him, turned his rear guard to meet the attack, and Sickles was driven off a second time with great loss. Then Jackson's men quickly rejoined him and they continued their march, the vanguard, in fact, never having stopped.
"Come into the boudoir, Professor Valeyon. You're a stranger." "But that's going to be remedied that's going to be remedied!" rejoined the old gentleman, seating himself, and allowing his hand to wander to the top of his head, to make sure the hair-swathe was safely in position. "Bond of union been established between us, you know."
But in truth I forget myself; I have this day designed for Rosarita a husband of a more exalted station." "And it may be that you have done wrong," rejoined the monk, in a serious tone; "from what I suspect in fact, what I may say I know this Tiburcio might make a more valuable son-in-law than you imagine." "It's too late then," said Don Augustin. "I have given my word, and I cannot retract it."
The lessons are just awful hard; it's no use talking." "They are hard, Shorty, and no mistake. But you'll get used to them all right," rejoined Bert, cheerfully. "I guess I'll get used to being kept in and getting whipped, first," grumbled Frank. "Not a bit of it," Bert insisted. "You just stick at them and you'll come out all right."
'I think I have caught it now, said Miss La Creevy. 'The very shade! This will be the sweetest portrait I have ever done, certainly. 'It will be your genius that makes it so, then, I am sure, replied Kate, smiling. 'No, no, I won't allow that, my dear, rejoined Miss La Creevy.
"The missing son, brought up by others, might have turned out badly," Prescott suggested. "Pooh!" quickly rejoined Lon Hibbert. "That missing son, no matter how wild or bad he may be, is still young enough to reform. I pray that it may be my good fortune to run across that son, one of these days, and that I may be the first to recognize the boy." "Prescott," broke in Mr.
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