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Trina shut her lips tightly, cleared her throat, and pretended to resettle a hair-pin at the back of her head. "I guess it isn't as bad as that," she said, very quietly. "Let's read this again. 'Herewith prohibited and enjoined from further continuing " She read to the end. "Why, it isn't possible," she cried. "They can't mean oh, Mac, I do believe pshaw!" she exclaimed, her pale face flushing.
Next morning he interviewed Lord Wolseley and some members of the Cabinet. He was asked if he would undertake a mission to the Soudan, to try to resettle affairs there, to bring away the Egyptian garrisons, and to divide, if possible, the country amongst the petty sultans whom he thought strong and wise enough to keep order. Gordon was ready to go, and, to go at once.
And so it was that only when things had begun to resettle themselves was any fresh reference made to the book's forthcoming publication. As soon as the subject was broached Max presented a face of polite astonishment. "I thought you knew, sir," he said. "Knew what?" "The most important event in recent history; I even thought you might have instigated it."
The vultures grow restless; they see a funeral cortege of black men in spotless white robes; they bear a black corpse in a white shroud. The body is hastily deposited within the area on its bed of stone and mattress of charcoal. The vultures swoop down to the feast. In a short while, satiated, they rise on heavy wing and lazily resettle upon the parapet.
Carron's arrival took some of the heavy work off his shoulders, and he had time to attend to Riley's exactions to explain, soothe, invent, and settle and resettle the poor wretch in bed, and to forge complimentary letters from Calcutta. At the end of the first month, Riley wished to send some money home to his mother. Reggie sent the draft.
Even had his painful position with regard to Harley not constrained him to preserve his secret, there was every motive to the world's wise and haughty son not to acknowledge a derogatory and foolish marriage, now that none lived whom concealment could wrong. Audley mechanically resumed his former life, sought to resettle his thoughts on the grand objects of ambitious men.
The wondering peer, who had begun to resettle himself in the corner of his carriage, answered that they were. "My lord, I see you are in a high state of fever; you were a little delirious just now when you snapped a pistol in your friend's face. Permit me to recommend you a prescription, swallow off all these pills!"
This proves that if the English had shown the humility and readiness to contribute which he desired, he would have left them in peace at the first, or, after the capture of Calcutta, have permitted them to resettle there without farther disturbance.
A long exposition of the inevitable war of independence, coupled with the purchase of a doubtful sixteenth-century sword for an exaggerated price, seemed to resettle matters. Wayne left the shop, however, somewhat infected with the melancholy of its owner. That melancholy was completed at the barber's. "Shaving, sir?" inquired that artist from inside his shop.
These people began now to feel alarms lest the Dutch, taking advantage of the absence of the English, should attempt an establishment, and soon permitted some persons from the northern factories to resettle the place; and, supplies arriving from Madras, things returned to their former course, and the fort was completed.
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