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All right, neighbours, since you insist, I'll put some seventeen or twenty-four of my Paris confections in your empty cupboards." Of course, Alicia was exaggerating, but she really did take half a dozen frocks into the two D's room, and hung them in outspread fashion right over their best costumes.
The day after the funeral the two brothers returned to London together, and Hugh spoke his mind in the railway carriage. "It will be no good for you to hang on about Bolton Street, off and on, as though she were a girl of seventeen," he said. "I'm quite up to that," said Archie. "I must let her know I'm there, of course. I understand all that." "Then why don't you do it?
After a silence, which brought them to the chicken-yard door, where Sheelah was "to quit his arm," she leaned heavily again, "The marriage that they are all talking of in the kitchen, and every where through the country Miss Dora's marriage with White Connal, is reprieved for the season. She axed time till she'd be seventeen very rasonable.
"And how old were you when you were married?" was Madame Deberle's next question. "Seventeen." "You must have been very beautiful." The conversation suddenly ceased, for Helene had not seemed to hear the remark. "Madame Manguelin!" announced the footman. A young, retiring woman, evidently ill at ease, was ushered in. Madame Deberle scarcely rose.
This would make us some amends for our ill luck, or ill conduct in North America; where Lord Loudon, with twelve thousand men, thought himself no match for the French with but seven; and Admiral Holborne, with seventeen ships of the line, declined attacking the French, because they had eighteen, and a greater weight of METAL, according to the new sea-phrase, which was unknown to Blake.
“Don’t taunt me with dressing up, Rakitin, you don’t know all that is in my heart! If I choose to tear off my finery, I’ll tear it off at once, this minute,” she cried in a resonant voice. “You don’t know what that finery is for, Rakitin! Perhaps I shall see him and say: ‘Have you ever seen me look like this before?’ He left me a thin, consumptive cry-baby of seventeen.
"But I must tell you this much," I insisted gently, "and then we won't speak of it again until you wish. Monsieur says your mother is only Regent until you come; that your destiny is marked out for you, that by every law of God and man you've got to go back and take up the Cross where you left it seventeen years ago, that you're booked to marry a Prince, I think.
I stand here to-day in the presence of a vast multitude of young people who are forming their habits. Between seventeen and twenty-five years of age a great many young men get on them habits in the use of tobacco that they never get over. Let me say to all my young friends, you can not afford to smoke, you can not afford to chew. You either take very good tobacco, or you take very cheap tobacco.
On the 18th of June the squadron was assembled just below Vicksburg, having in company also seventeen schooners of the mortar flotilla, still under Porter's command. These were placed as rapidly as possible in suitable positions on the two sides of the river, opened fire on the 26th, and continued it through the 27th.
He went into the bank as messenger, seventeen years old; he was president at forty-three, and he built that bank with his life for forty years more. He was down there from nine in the morning until four in the afternoon the day before he died over eighty! Gilt edge, that bank? It was diamond edge!
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