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When the colony was for a time deserted these horses were suffered to run wild. Those animals so multiplied and spread over such a vast area that they were found, forty-three years later, even down to the Straits of Magellan, a distance of eleven hundred miles. With good pasture and a limitless expanse to roam over, they soon turned from the dozens to thousands, and may now be counted by millions.
I smiled, and waited for him to go on. "I am an old man, as you can see," he continued, "and I have been a shipmaster the greater part of my life, forty-three years in all. You may not think it, but I am above eighty years of age." He did not look so old, and I hastened to say so. "You must have left the sea a good many years ago, then, Captain Littlepage?" I said.
Callot died on the 24th of March, 1635, at the age of forty-three. Still a young man, he had passed through all the phases of temperament that commonly mark the transit from youth to age. And he had used his art in the manner of a master to express the external world and his convictions concerning the great spiritual and ethical questions of his age.
The large diamond earrings were worth twenty thousand francs; the bracelets, thirty-five thousand; the rings, sixteen thousand; a set of emeralds and sapphires, fourteen thousand; a gold chain with solitaire pendant, forty thousand making the sum of one hundred and forty-three thousand francs. The jeweler remarked, jokingly: "There was a person who invested all her savings in precious stones."
Consuls like Marius and Cinna, who had the confidence of the people, had been re-elected year after year, and had been virtual kings. Sylla provided that ten years must elapse between a first consulship and a second. Nor was any one to be a consul who was not forty-three years old and had not passed already through the lower senatorial offices of praetor or quaestor.
Captain Lake shifted his foot, as if he had found it on a sudden on a hot flag. 'Sell Five Oaks that's fourteen hundred a year, said he. 'Hardly so much, but nearly, perhaps. 'Forty-three thousand pounds were offered for it. Old Chudworth offered that about ten years ago. 'Of course, Captain Lake, if you are looking for a fancy price from me I must abandon the idea.
"I was forty-three when his bankers you remember you wired to his bankers sent on to me." "I got their address from the cheque book in his pocket," said Isbister. "Well, the addition is not difficult," said Warming. There was another pause, and then Isbister gave way to an unavoidable curiosity. "He may go on for years yet," he said, and had a moment of hesitation. "We have to consider that.
Then, remembering with only an idle curiosity the one hundred and forty-three mediocre prizes on the list, he returned to the perusal. Suddenly the print swam before his eyes, and the great esplanade seemed to rise. Number 77,707 had won the fourth prize of one hundred thousand francs; number 200,013, a prize of ten thousand francs.
"I not go swim now," she said regretfully, "'cep' some night-time. Too big. Before I marry, eighteen seven'y-nine, and before my three children grow up, I swim plenty then." "Lovaina," I said, "it was hardly eighteen seventynine you were married. You are only forty-three now. Was it not eighty-nine?" "Mus' be," she replied thoughtfully. "I nineteen when marry.
She had discovered him; and women don't discover even mortal paragons every day in the week. Also, she was a woman of forty-three, which, after all, is not wrinkled and withered eld; and she was not a soured woman; she radiated health and sweetness; she had loved once in her life, very dearly.
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