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She kept there less than two hundred soldiers and even to these she paid so little attention that sometimes they had no uniforms. The Acadians prospered, multiplied, and quarreled as to the boundaries of their lands. They rendered no military service, paid no taxes, and had the country to themselves as completely as if there had been no British conquest. They rarely saw a British official.
The more nonworking adherents they have, the greater their prestige." And the more rifles they could muster when they quarreled with their fellow nobles, of course. "Beside, if we didn't do that, they'd turn brigand, and it costs less to support them than to have to hunt them out of the brush and hang them." "On Aditya, brigandage does not exist."
There was even in the last century a baronet the earldom had been lost to the Dynecourts during the Commonwealth who, having quarreled with his friend over a reigning belle, had smitten him across the cheek with his glove, and then challenged him to mortal combat.
He spoke very gravely. His looks told me more than his words: his looks alarmed me. "Eustace has not quarreled with you?" I said. "Oh no!" "He understands that you have not broken your promise to him?" "Certainly. "Did the doctor see the Trial?" "Neither the doctor nor Mr. Benjamin has seen the Trial.
The exile's prospects, too, began to brighten. Caesar had reached for the present the height of his ambition, and was busy with his province of Gaul. Pompey had quarreled with Clodius, whom he found to be utterly unmanageable. And Cicero's friend, one Milo, of whom I shall have to say more hereafter, being the most active of them all, never ceased to agitate for his recall.
How strange that it should have been so hard for Gypsy; that it had cost her a sacrifice to welcome her cousin; how strange that they could ever have quarreled so; how strange all those ugly, dark memories of the first few months they spent together—the jealousy, the selfishness, the dislike of each other, the constant fretting and jarring, the longing for the time that should separate them.
"For twenty years," he repeated, "I have been in the British army, and in that time I have been intimately acquainted with some two hundred officers, young and old, and I never yet quarreled with any man. Oh, 'anything for a quiet life! that's my maxim."
She therefore smiled, and still gently agitating the fan before Verty, repeated: "Have you and Redbud fallen out?" "Yes," said the young man. "Concerning what?" "I don't know I mean Redbud has quarreled with me." "Indeed!" Verty replied with a sigh. "Come!" said Miss Sallianna, "make a confidant of me, and confide your feelings to a heart which beats responsive to your own."
Accompanied perhaps by Riggs, who had shown himself not overscrupulous until he quarreled with his employer, he had gone across to the railroad embankment, and, by jumping in front of the car, had caused Halsey to swerve. The rest of the story we knew. That was my reconstructed theory of that afternoon and evening: it was almost correct not quite. There was a telegram that morning from Gertrude.
Lazy!" retorted the big man. "I show you black coon!" "By golly!" laughed Rad. "Him an' me good friends now, Massa Tom. Neber I fuss wif Koku any mo'! He suah was good to me when I had to stay in de dark!" Of course it would be too much to hope that Koku and Eradicate never again quarreled, but for a long time their warm friendship was a thing at which to marvel, considering the past.
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