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"You forget, signor, that you insult my master, that you insult Spain, by withholding from me by main force what I have purchased in the name of Spain." "France will never stand second to Spain!" proudly responded Gianettino, "and where Spain offers twenty ducats, France pays six-and-thirty! Forward, my youngsters! To the kitchen of the French ambassador!"
"Something there is moves me to love, and I Do know I love, but know not how, nor why." As John and his children withdrew together through the garden, Justina Fairbairn sat with her work on her knees, watching them. "Mr. Mortimer is six-and-thirty, is he not?" she asked. "Yes," answered Emily.
I have lived here six-and-thirty years; 'tis a pretty place and it vexes me to leave it," continued the poor creature, as a touch of natural feeling softened and agitated her world-hardened heart.
On the 26th the Second Army Corps was at Madison Court House. November 27. The next day it was concentrated at Orange Court House, six-and-thirty miles from Fredericksburg.
Then the violence of his grief became exhausted, and he lay still, weeping as a child would weep. The twilight of departing day shed its gloom around him ere he arose from that posture of utter and hopeless sorrow. He had taken no food. Not one drop of water had cooled the fever of his parched lips. Sleep had not visited his eyes for six-and-thirty hours.
"Though no small passage was before her, yet, if the commonest chance favoured, he did not at all fear that his ship would founder by the way, because his pumps were of the best, and being periodically relieved at them, those six-and-thirty men of his could easily keep the ship free; never mind if the leak should double on her.
Courtenay, "would you take Mrs. Milton-Cleave to have an ice?" Now Mrs. Milton-Cleave had always been one of the curate's great friends. She was a very pleasant, talkative woman of six-and-thirty, and a general favourite. Her popularity was well deserved, for she was always ready to do a kind action, and often went out of her way to help people who had not the slightest claim upon her.
At that moment he was far from happy, and even the tedious evenings at Mittwalden Palace began to smile upon him by comparison. "O, six-and-thirty!" he protested. "A man is not yet old at six-and-thirty. I am that age myself." "I should have taken you for more, sir," piped the old farmer.
And are my vices only to direct my life, and my virtues to lie without effect, like some passive lumber of the mind? Not so; good, also, is a spring of acts." But the visitant raised his finger. "For six-and-thirty years that you have been in this world," said he, "through many changes of fortune and varieties of humor, I have watched you steadily fall.
In the first place, I found that, instead of being a youth of sixteen, he was a man of at least six-and-thirty; in the next, that if it had not been for the raised dais on which he stood, the enormous thickness of the soles of his shoes, and the other palpably fictitious contrivances and expedients by which his dimensions were enlarged, he would not greatly have exceeded the size of my own father.
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