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Then, without looking towards the door where Laurence stood, she went to the great iron altar at the upper end of the weird chapel and threw something on the red embers which glowed upon it. "Barran most mighty Barran-Sathanas, accept this offering, and reveal thyself to my master!" she said in a voice like a chant.
Barran came next to him with 23,674. Mr. Gladstone. It was, indeed, a famous victory; and when I parted from Kitson and Mathers after the declaration of the poll, whilst we all felt more than repaid for the toil and anxiety of months, we admitted, with a certain amount of sadness, that we could never hope to repeat such a success.
I will give thee yet more and more. I swear it. I have kept the best wine till the last the death vintage of a great house. The wine of beauty and brightness I have kept it for thee. Halt not to make me stronger! Help me Barran, help I fail !" His voice had risen higher and higher till it was well nigh a scream of agony.
Don Diego Barran, a bastard sonne of the Marques of Santa Cruz; his company was that night in the Galeon. Don Antonio de Herera then at Madrid. Don Pedro de Manriques brother to the Earle of Paxides. Don Ieronimo de Mourray of the Order of S. Iuan, with some of the towne were in the fort. Don Gomez de Caramasal then at Madrid. Captaine Manco Caucaso de Socas.
Barran, and at ten o'clock departed from Leeds by special train for Hawarden. It will be seen that the burden of work laid upon him was enormous, especially considering the fact that he was already in his seventy-second year.
La Meffraye laughed a low, cackling laugh, and in the act showed the four long eye-teeth which were the sole remaining dental equipment of her mouth. "Oh, Great Barran " she chuckled, "listen to the pretty fool! Our brother will do this our brother will do that. Our brother will lick the country of Retz as clean as a dog licks a platter.
The choice of the caucus fell upon the worthy President of that body, the late Sir John Barran, an amiable man and a good citizen, though his claims to Parliamentary distinction at that time were certainly unequal to those of Sir Edward Baines. The revolution had taken place, however, and the Liberal party found itself under the command of new masters.
I have related this incident not only for its own sake, but because of its bearing on subsequent events. "I'm going to write a story about that boy", I said to W. Barran Lewis, who stood near me. "Do you know his name?" "Yes," said the editor. "He is Lemuel A. Widding, Jr. Makes a good story, doesn't it?" Lemuel A. Widding! Where had I heard that name?
The next morning the people of Leeds awoke to discover every dead wall in the town placarded with an address, signed by the president of the Liberal Association, announcing the dissolution, and appealing to the electors to support the Liberal candidates, Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Barran.
On the eve of the meeting at which they were to make their final selection of a colleague for Mr. Barran, I learned that my fears were well founded, and that the choice was likely to fall upon a gentleman whom I did not regard as suitable. In order to prevent this, I proposed in the Leeds Mercury of the next morning that, in spite of Mr.
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