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Meldritch had but eight thousand soldiers, but he was re-enforced by the arrival of nine thousand more, with six-and-twenty pieces of ordnance, under Lord Zachel Moyses, the general of the army, who took command of the whole.
I have heerd of one young man, a guard upon a railway, only three years opened well does Mrs Harris know him, which indeed he is her own relation by her sister's marriage with a master sawyer as is godfather at this present time to six-and-twenty blessed little strangers, equally unexpected, and all on 'um named after the Ingeines as was the cause.
After that he had thoroughly broke his fast, he went to church, and they carried to him, in a great basket, a huge impantoufled or thick-covered breviary, weighing, what in grease, clasps, parchment and cover, little more or less than eleven hundred and six pounds. There he heard six-and-twenty or thirty masses.
She was thoroughly happy, and enjoyed her life to the utmost. Among the teachers in the school was a certain Miss Symes, an Englishwoman of very high attainments, with lofty ideas, and the greatest desire to do the utmost for her pupils. Miss Symes was not more than six-and-twenty.
"She has been so every minute of every day for six-and-twenty years; but I am not like her, it is not my nature. How can I help it? I am angry with myself sometimes; but you do not know, Celestine, what it would be to make terms with infamy." "There is my father!" said Celestine placidly. "He has certainly started on the road that ruined yours.
Well, it's pretty much the same as the other. To begin with, if she marries before the age of six-and-twenty, she gets nothing whatever. If she doesn't marry, there's two hundred a year to live on and to keep up the house. Oh, I was forgetting; she must not only keep single to twenty-six, but continue to live where she does now, with that old servant of theirs for companion.
If you do not, I shall miss you sorely." The curtains parted, and the servant announced, "The Earl of Vauxhall." The cardinal rose from his chair. A young man stepped upon the balcony. He was tall and lithe and blond, and six-and-twenty. "Your grace," he said, "I have come because I am in deep trouble." "In that event," said the cardinal, "you do me much honor.
"But Five Pounds!" said the step-daughter, an argumentative young woman of six-and-twenty. Mr. Cave's answers were wretched; he could only mumble weak assertions that he knew his own business best. They drove him from his half-eaten supper into the shop, to close it for the night, his ears aflame and tears of vexation behind his spectacles. "Why had he left the crystal in the window so long?
If it should fall out so unfortunately that she is not married before she is five or six-and-twenty, it will be extremely hard to marry her at all. When a girl reaches that age, people want to know why she has been so long on hand. We are a good deal talked about in our set. We have come to the end of all the ordinary excuses 'She is so young.
She was about six-and-twenty years of age, with a face more oval than that of Esquimaux in general, very pretty eyes and mouth, teeth remarkably white and regular, and possessing in her carriage and manners a degree of natural gracefulness, which could not be hid even under the disguise of an Esquimaux woman's dress, and, as was usual with Togolat, the dirtiest face of her whole tribe.
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