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Miss Wright's answer proved of more value to me than she anticipated, for it not only quieted the conflicting reports concerning Anderson's corps, but was most important in showing positively that Kershaw was gone, and this circumstance led, three days later, to the battle of the Opequon, or Winchester as it has been unofficially called.
Don't forget that you know everything about this mysterious business, and I know very little." Her sympathetic voice roused him from the stupor which had benumbed his senses. "I allowed imagination to run away with me, Sis," he said gently. "It was thoughtless on my part. Please forgive me. I suppose those two Chinamen are unofficially connected with the Embassy.
As Dick subsequently explained to Captain Arnutt, the thing struck him as the more awkward because, having found Jan, he desired now to be allowed to resign from the force, as he wanted to return to England. "But, hang it, man! you've been gazetted a full sergeant-inspector and unofficially, of course I'm told we are only waiting word from Ottawa about offering you commissioned rank."
In process of time they had two or three children, and this, together with the unassuming but yet faithful and efficient manner in which Catharine devoted herself to her duties as wife and mother, strengthened the bond which bound her to the Czar, and at length, in the year 1712, Peter determined to place her before the world in the position to which he had already privately and unofficially raised her, by a new and public marriage.
I wonder she didn't correct him for his profanity, but I allow for once she was scared stiff, and hadn't no answer ready. My! But she kind of shrunk in and looked a million years old. "Madam," said he, "do you belong to this column?" "Unofficially, I do," she said, perking up a little. "Might I inquire where you came from?" said he, doing the ironical perlite. "Oakland, California," said she.
The natural gas has been turned off and there is no danger of explosions." At three o'clock Friday morning it was unofficially announced that three pillagers had been shot to death in various parts of the city during the night.
Madam League was simply Philip II. Nothing was written, officially or unofficially, to the French government by the Spanish court that was not at the same time communicated to "Mucio" as the Duke of Guise was denominated in the secret correspondence of Philip, and Mucio was in Philip's pay, his confidential agent, spy, and confederate, long before the actual existence of the League was generally suspected.
A private detective, by the same authority, is one "engaged unofficially in obtaining secret information for or guarding the private interests of those who employ him." Yet in spite of ourselves we are accustomed to attribute superhuman acuteness and a lightning-like rapidity of intellect to this vague and romantic class of fellow-citizens.
Outside Nooitgedacht I found four military doctors with a field ambulance. "Does this officer belong to the Red Cross?" I asked. "No," was the answer, "he is only with us quite unofficially as a sympathetic friend." "I regret," said I, "that I cannot allow this thing; you have come through our lines without my permission; this officer no doubt is a spy."
Unofficially the supporters of the new government took measures for its defense. In the following spring, Governor Robinson sent his first message to the State legislature in session at Topeka; and Reeder and Lane were chosen senators for the inchoate Commonwealth. Meantime Governor Shannon had succeeded Reeder as executive of the territorial government at Shawnee Mission.
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