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...is love, ’tis love that makes the world go round! Chapter 5 CONCERNING THE MENDICANT’S BRIDE THE IMPRESSIVE GLOOM with which Mrs Wilfer received her h... ...osition to her advice: ‘—your daugh- ter Bella has bestowed herself upon a Mendicant.’ ‘Good gracious, my dear!’ ‘Show your father his daughter Bella’... ...h she has united her- self to one who is, in spite of shallow sophistry, a Mendicant. And I may feel well assured that your daughter Bella,’ again tur... ...’ again turning to her husband, ‘does not exalt her family by becom- ing a Mendicant’s bride. But I suppress what I feel, and say nothing of it.’ Mr S... ...sympathetic words very gladly withdrew. Within a few weeks afterwards, the Mendicant’ s bride (arm- in-arm with the Mendicant) came to tea, in fulfilm... ...rt little ways in sharp action, she had got a doll into whitey-brown paper orders, before the meal was over, and was displaying it for the edification... ...very day . ‘Suppose you was just to step round to-night then, and give him orders from me—I say from me, because he knows I won’t be played with—to be...

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...ombustion.’ Kirby had the wildest way of talking when he was not issu- ing orders under fire, best understood by sailors. I give it you as it stands h... ...nd deep, made the postillion cease jogging, and sang out to his master for orders, and Kirby sang back to him to look to his priming, and then the pos... ... from Tyranny . . .’ 55 George Meredith ‘We start at noon to-day. Sailing orders have been issued, and I could only have resisted them in my own pers... ...vely, my dear Fleetwood, you know,’ Sir Meeson ex- postulated, ‘I am under orders; I don’t see how—I really can’t go on without you.’ ‘Please yourself... ...e, a total stranger, who might be a cut-throat, and was avowedly next to a mendicant, charged him with quantities of interjectory matter, that he caug... ...ed vagabond impostor astounded him. He sent the flyman to the carriage for orders. Admiral Fakenham and Carinthia descended. Sir Meeson heard her cry ...

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...zing past his ear so truly, that fear made the man obedient to the counter-orders of Pierpoint for the moment. He paused and awaited the issue. In a m... ...ions. Still Mr. Reyes was of opinion that there were two ways of executing orders: but the main offence was un- intentional on Kate’s part. Reyes, tho... ...the imperial throne; in China he would be no- body, or (worse than that) a mendicant-alien, prostrate at the feet, and soliciting the precarious alms ... ...he person of his deluded enemy, and to keep him in strict captivity. These orders were eagerly fulfilled, and the unfortunate Kichinskoi soon afterwar... ...and square miles in one simultaneous blaze, the Tartars waited for further orders. These, it was intended, should have taken a character of valedictor... ...pment at vari- ous points. Great agitation appeared immediately to follow; orders were soon after despatched in all directions: and it became speedily...

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... Prague; and to convince the people that he was really still in existence, orders were given that all the windows should be opened in the streets thro... ... he attempt to restrain the violence of his soldiery; they disregarded his orders. Persuaded that the Emperor’s object was to annul the Let- ter of Ma... ...nd the court thought it might venture on a decisive step. By the Emperor’s orders, the church at Klostergrab was pulled down; that at Braunau forcibly... ...r confederates in Bohemia, at the cost of a third party. Mansfeld received orders forthwith to march with these 4000 men into that kingdom; and a pret... ...er ravages. While the Elector Frederick followed, almost like a fugi- tive mendicant, this swarm of plunderers which acknowledged him as its lord, and... ...y appro- priated to themselves all advantages. A strong army under his own orders could alone free him from this debasing dependence upon Bavaria, and...

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...amation. ‘Evan would walk— he would die rather. It was treating him like a mendicant.’ Andrew had to shrink in his brewer’s skin. By some fatality all... ... you drunk last?, was Mrs. Mel’s address to Dandy, as he stood waiting for orders. He replied to it in an altogether injured way: ‘There, now; you’ve ... ... she has beaten me,’ quoth cynical Drummond, and immediately went and gave orders for his horse to be saddled, thinking that he would tread on the hea... ...really tell you that.’ Conning here entered to say that Mr. Evan had given orders for the boxes to be packed and everything got ready to depart by hal... ...ess turned her head round to Caroline like an astonished automaton. ‘Given orders!’ she interjected. ‘I have very little to get ready,’ remarked Carol... ...to hide him.’ Andrew accepted this intelligent evasion of T om Cogglesby’s orders as sufficient, and immediately proceeded upstairs. A door shut on th...