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He had called three times, and the third time he had brought with him a letter even more passionately loving, while also even more angry and hurt in tone, than the one which she had received from him the day before.
Meanwhile Wynne's Brigade had advanced to within twelve hundred yards of the Brakfontein position and retired, drawing the enemy's heavy fire; the three brigades under Clery had moved to the right near Munger's Drift; the Cavalry were massed in the hollows at the foot of Swartkop; and the Engineers had constructed the third pontoon bridge, performing their business with excellent method and despatch under a sharp fire from Boer skirmishers and a Maxim.
Naturally enough, he was heavily in debt, but carried the burden of it with perfect nonchalance. The year before S. Behrman had held mortgages for fully a third of his crop and had squeezed him viciously for interest. But for all that, Osterman and S. Behrman were continually seen arm-in-arm on the main street of Bonneville.
It was in the middle of the third night, as they were cantering slowly along, that they heard the tread of a horse, at full gallop, approaching from the south. "You had better withdraw from the road," Don Estevan said, "so that but one horseman will be met. I will stop the rider, and hear why he gallops so fast.
The army spread itself over a wide tract of country, marching generally in three divisions, which proceeded by three parallel lines one along the coast, another at some considerable distance inland, and a third, with which was Xerxes himself, midway between them.
"The third waltz?" "Very well the third waltz," she echoed. There was no question of splitting it up. No man dared make the suggestion. Something in the Roman's manner and Mary's look gave every one the idea that they knew each other well, that no one must try to interfere between them.
These accursed times by tripping up importation have, for this year at least, lopped off a full third of my income; and with my large family this is to me a distressing matter. CLXXXVII. To MRS. RIDDEL.
"'The first comprises the decades from the foundation of the republic to about the end of the first third of the nineteenth century say, up to the thirties or forties. This was the period during which the power of capital in private hands had not as yet shown itself seriously aggressive. The moneyed class was small and the accumulations of capital petty.
According to the latest report of this reincarnation, he now claims to be at once Krishna come again for Hindus, Mahomed for Mahomedans, and Christ for Christians. The third movement is that of the Chet Ramis, or sect of Chet Ram, whose strange history may be found in East and West for July 1905.
I received two such letters, and upon my calling at a General Post-Office for a third, I was informed that there was a letter for A. Stafford. "Oh yes, that is my letter," I said. The clerk demurred and replied: "You asked for James Stafford. Under those circumstances I cannot hand you this letter. It is against the postal law."
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