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Had she done what was best for the child? Misgiving upon this point made her heart ache bitterly. Was life then but a series of trist condonings at the best, of humiliating compromises at the worst? She repeated her question to Ranulph now. "You haven't ambition any longer?" "I'm busy building ships," he answered evasively. "I build good ships, they tell me, and I am strong and healthy.
A Jew, unfortunately slain on the sands of Sheba Cove, in the parish of Ruan Lanihale, August 15, 1810: or so much of it as is hereby related by the Rev. Endymion Trist, B.D., then vicar of that parish, in a letter to a friend.
Matchless! matchless! Every day sees her with some new capacity, some fresh and delicate aplomb. She has set the town admiring, and jealous mothers prophesy trist ending for her. Her swift mastery of the social arts is weird, they say. La! la! The social arts!
Baroness von Ritz, a card will come to you." She swept him a curtsey, and gave him a smile. "Now, as for me," he continued, "I am an old man, and long ago danced my last dance in public. To-morrow night all of us will be at the White House Mr. Trist will be there, and Doctor Ward, and a certain lady, a Miss Elisabeth Churchill, Madam, whom I shall be glad to have you meet.
Meanwhile the Mexican government had departed in the person of Santa Anna, and it looked doubtful for a time whether the United States commissioner, Mr. Trist, would find anybody to negotiate with. A temporary government, however, was soon established at Queretaro, and Trist began negotiations for a conclusion of the war.
Polk resisted this pressure, but he recalled Trist just before the beginning of the final negotiations with Mexico. On the advice of General Scott, Trist refused to obey the President, and both he and the general hastened the negotiations.
"But surely you can not believe that I " "I only believe what seems credible, Mr. Trist." "But you promised that very morning you agreed Were you out of your mind, that " "I was out of my mind that morning but not that evening." Now she was grande demoiselle, patrician, superior. Suddenly I became conscious of the dullness of my own garb.
Trist Major Lally Meeting of Mr. Trist with the Mexican commissioners Failure to agree Armistice violated by the Mexicans and notice from General Scott Santa Anna's insolent note The latter calls a meeting of his principal officers Molino del Rey Chapultepecec Losses on both sides. The army began its movement from Puebla toward the City of Mexico on August 6, 1847.
Only be sure that this proposition of compromise will meet with his acceptance." "I do not quite understand why you do not go to Mr. Buchanan, our secretary of state." "Because I pay my debts," she said simply. "I told you that Mr. Trist and I were comrades. I conceived it might be some credit for him in his work to have been the means of doing this much."
I had arrived at that well-known portion of the story where Ethelred, the hero of the "Trist," having sought in vain for peaceable admission into the dwelling of the hermit, proceeds to make good an entrance by force. Here, it will be remembered, the words of the narrative run thus:
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