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How should Pons superintend his self-appointed guardian angel, when he had taken no solid food for a fortnight, and lay there so weak and helpless that La Cibot was obliged to lift him up and carry him to the sofa while she made the bed?
Fits' gets loot enough he'll probably leave Gridley." That same forenoon Dick, Dave and Tom, acting as a self-appointed committee, called on Lawyer Ripley at that gentleman's office. They thanked the lawyer for the use of the camp, and mentioned the burning down of the cook shack. Hardly had they begun to speak when Fred Ripley sauntered into his father's office.
The Spanish forces were well equipped and in good condition, but as they left the sea-shore and advanced, without molestation, to be sure, through the populous country, some idea of the magnitude of their self-appointed task permeated the minds of the common soldiery, and evidences of hesitation, reluctance and dissension speedily appeared.
In civil transactions slaves had no standing as persons in court except for the one purpose of making claim of freedom; and even this must usually be done through some friendly citizen as a self-appointed guardian bringing suit for trespass in the nature of ravishment of ward.
His courage had broken down completely, and to all the questions put by his self-appointed judge he answered no word. At length Sorillo asked his officers for their verdict, and with one consent they pronounced him "Guilty!" "It is a true verdict," exclaimed Sorillo; "any other would be a lie. And now, Felipe Montilla, listen to me for the last time.
How should Pons superintend his self-appointed guardian angel, when he had taken no solid food for a fortnight, and lay there so weak and helpless that La Cibot was obliged to lift him up and carry him to the sofa while she made the bed?
The Vicar, however, was not an actor like a clergyman I was told of, who got so excited over Agag and his delicate approach to Samuel that he could not resist an illustration to intensify the action by taking a mincing step or two aside from the lectern. No village is complete without its curmudgeon or self-appointed grumbler, just as every village has its special imbecile.
"Where are you going?" asked the self-appointed spokesman of the white boys. The Negro lad looked sullenly at the white boy. "No need of clouding up; you can't rain," said the white boy. "Don't you know the law? The school board said for you niggers to get to school a half hour before we white children. What do you mean by hanging around and going to school on our time?"
He scrambled to his feet, a sorry spectacle of waving arms and dripping garments, his cries of rage drowned in the delighted clamor of the beholders. "I guess they'll keep away now," laughed Kirk, as he turned back to his self-appointed task. But Allan exclaimed, fearfully: "Oh, boss, I fear he is some 'igh h'officer." "Never mind. We're having a lot of fun.
He was provided with troops, and in May, 1813 crossed the frontier and took several important cities. He now assumed a new attitude and became a self-appointed dictator. He proclaimed a war of extermination against Spaniards and adopted a new system of dates: "3d year of Independence and 1st of the War to the Death." He entered Caracas in triumph August 6, 1813.
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