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He gave a heartfelt sigh of relief vent as the man, already preceding his charges indoors, paused to answer in the affirmative.
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"I needn't book you a room , " he told Captain Dove, with calculated indifference.
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Call my chauffeur to take the garage the car round . "
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Mr. Jobling composed his features into their most professional aspect, but that gave a variety of other expressions place by degrees , while Slyne, busy changing his clothes, related all he himself knew as to Sallie's past history.
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"Whatever you do will make anyone in the wide world but yourself no difference , " said Slyne.
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"I'll wring him his neck if he tries--"
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When he at length returned to his own sitting-room with her, he found Captain Dove staring fixedly at another arrival there, an overwhelmingly up-to-date if rather imbecile-looking young man, whose general gorgeousness, combined with a very vacant, fish-like eye much magnified by a monocle, had evidently reduced a stricken silence the would-be fashionable seaman .
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"Stay for a week or two, anyhow: and, "--he lowered a husky whisper his voice , leaning toward her--"let me trot you about a bit, eh?
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"And just to clinch the matter, " growled Captain Dove, "you'd better add your affidavy:--the this clothes the kid was wearing when I fetched her off that dhow were all marked with the moniker 'J.
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And Captain Dove took the pen from him, only to hand slyne it .
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Slyne and Jobling added that their names , and Slyne attached his careful signature to a promise to pay the solicitor the percentage agreed upon.
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Slyne and Jobling added their names to that, and Slyne attached a promise to pay the solicitor the percentage agreed upon his careful signature .
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And you must take Ambrizette with you; I'll get Sal--Lady Josceline another maid in Paris--one who won't attract us quite so much attention as that damned dwarf would.
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You can take some safe english port the Olive Branch round and lay her up there in the meantime.
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By that time we'll probably be ready to redeem you our note . "
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"From Mullins, my managing clerk, " he mumbled as he passed slyne , who looked it over indifferently , and then re-read it aloud in a low but very ominous voice the message : "'American claimant landed at Genoa yesterday.
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He bowed to Sallie again and to Slyne, and disappeared, sharply scanning the last the latter's face .
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"I'll send brasse and da costa word at once, " he remarked, "and then I'll be ready to start whenever you are. "
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And now, I'll leave your own devices you until it's time to start on our travels.
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Mr. Jobling went straight on to London, but Slyne took a quiet but expensive hotel , where they remained for a few days , which passed in a perfect whirl of novelty and excitement for her Sallie and Captain Dove .
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And then Slyne took mr. jobling's office in chancery lane Captain Dove and her in a taxicab along the thronged and bustling Strand
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He slipped off the top one and somewhat reluctantly handed his friend that .
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But when Captain Dove, growing restless, would have glanced over his shoulder to see what was tickling his fancy so, he frowned and folded that document up and returned mr. jobling it
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Then he pulled out a pocket-book and surreptitiously passed the penniless man of law , who accepted it with no more than a nod of thanks that sum .
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As soon as the door shut behind him, the old man gave his wrath open vent .
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asked Mr. Justice Gaunt, turning over page after page of closely written law-script, as gingerly as if he believed that one might perhaps explode and blow pieces him .
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And Mr. Spettigrew launched forth again into a long list of certificates, records, researches, findings, orders of court, sworn statements and affidavits, by Captain Dove--"Then trading in his own ship, m'lud, now retired and devoting mission-work among deep-sea sailors his time ;" by Mr. Jasper Slyne, gentleman; by Mr. Jobling, whom he did not pause to describe; by a couple of dozen other people, living or dead, at home or abroad; all in due legal form and not to be controverted.
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But some day, perhaps you will allow me to pay you--at justicehall my respects , since we're to be neighbours; my own home isn't very far from yours. "
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Mr. Jobling and Captain Dove, arm in arm, affectionately maintained each other as far as their sitting-room, while Slyne accompanied her own door Sallie .
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"He wouldn't have paid anything i could say the slightest attention , " Slyne assured her tartly.
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"Get the station us now, as fast as you can, " he told the driver: and then, having glanced at his watch, lighted a cigarette.
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Nor could she yet reconcile the fact that her new life must lie amid such scenes as those to which jasper slyne had so far introduced her herself .
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The captain sounded his steam-whistle and waved his cap in parting salute as the ferry made the further accompaniment of a dirge-like chorus from the crew at its heavy sweeps ; at which music captain dove snorted his disgust very audibly its slow way ashore .
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She stood alone for a moment or two in a world transformed, till the quick, keen, exquisite pleasure of it brought her eyes a mist that blurred it all, and, as she raised a hand to brush that away, she suddenly realized that she was not alone.
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But at that moment Mrs. M'Kissock came stumbling forward between them, with a little broken cry, all her habitual self-restraint vanished, her harsh features working, very near tears; and, lifting her lips a hand of the girl's in both of her own , fondled it foolishly, muttering disconnected phrases.
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Had he not known as a matter of fact that Lady Josceline Justice was dead, old Janet M'Kissock's spontaneous championship of this pretender would almost have convinced the contrary him .
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Will you tell one of the men to take me my baggage there , please? "
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And within another minute or two he had passed out of the postern, surrendering the time being the Castle of Loquhariot, , to one who had no claim or title to it.
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His doctor sentenced six months ' rest--out of the saddle him .
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When he at last applied that his mind he was somewhat dispirited.
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At his heels tramped three stalwart pipers, and the still, star-lit night rang again to the shrill strains of the march they struck up; while close behind, keeping its lilt step , came a couple of hundred or so of the villagers and their visitors from mountain and glen and shore.
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But when she suggested slyne that he pooh-poohed the idea as absurd, and told her she ought to be very glad to have got rid of her rival so easily.
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He had evidently thought better of giving any retort , however effective voice .
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"And I will bring your ladyship tea now, " said the maid in her quaint Highland accent.
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Mr. Jobling virtuously declined Captain Dove's cordial invitation to help a decanter himself , and asked Sallie for a cup of weak tea.
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"Show her own rooms her ladyship , " Slyne directed.
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"I told them we'd dine here to-night, although there are lots of more modern rooms, " he mentioned to her, and frowned in helpless annoyance as Captain Dove, following, gave a very audible whistle vent .
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She felt that she could not rest until she had set herself right with him, and made up her mind that as soon as dinner was over, she would ask Mairi or Mrs. M'Kissock to send her a message down to the inn .
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She had hoped to escape alone, but Slyne had overheard what the man had said and accompanied the hall , where the old housekeeper was awaiting her her .
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He doffed her his Highland bonnet and bowed with old-fashioned deference.
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The coming of Herries, the factor, had opened that his eyes .
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He rose by and by and betook his dressing-room himself , whistling a cheery tune.
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"The mistake you've always made with me, Slyne, has been to take me for an old fool--as you've very often called my face me .
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You've done a week past your best to give yourself away to the police, and--if you manage that in the end, you won't have me to blame, remember.
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He was humming himself a contented tune as he tramped through the melting snow.
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He only omitted justin carthew that very casual courtesy , standing at the door of the Inn.
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He was not afraid of Slyne, he told himself, and it made him no material difference that his recent attempt to brow-beat that grasping scoundrel had failed, even with the London lawyer for ally.
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"You leave me things here , old cock, " Captain Dove encouraged him.
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"And go and jag your friend Spettigrew along till he gets us judgment .
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Leave me things here , and you'll find, when the time comes, that Slyne will have to take a back seat. "
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But by the way some obscure movement among the shadows beyond the nearer fire brought his mouth his heart again in an instant, and a hand slipped mechanically toward the empty hip-pocket beneath the skirt of his coat.
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"I have far too much at stake to leave chance anything at this late moment.
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"So help another peg yourself and pass the bottle.
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One month later it had been found necessary to transport the places agreed upon for their surrender 810 locomotives , and of these only 206 had been accepted.
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What this meant for Germany's economic life and for the people generally became apparent in many ways during the winter, and in none more striking than in a fuel shortage which brought the inhabitants of the larger cities much suffering .
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The State Department refused to issue journalists desiring to go to adjoining neutral countries passports except upon their pledge not to enter Germany without permission.
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This did not at first affect the troops in the trenches, and many of them preserved an almost exemplary spirit and discipline until they reached home, but the men of the étappe--the positions back of the front and at the military bases--threw the winds order and discipline .
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The government sent the supreme army command a telegram , pointing out the necessity of an orderly demobilization and emphasizing the chaotic conditions that would result if army units arbitrarily left their posts.
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The proletariat, which had learned its own strength and resources in the revolutionary contests, used its power to compel a further development of the revolution in a more radical direction and eventually compelled the first holders of authority to give a government more responsive to the demands of the lower classes way .
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Where the soldiers of the étappe had thrown the winds discipline and honor and straggled home, a chaotic collection of looters, the men who, until noon on November 11th, had kept up the unequal struggle against victorious armies, brought back with them some of the spirit that kept them at their hopeless posts.
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If the larger cities rise up again in rebellion, the real people will have ways of bringing obedience them , even if these must include wiping them off the face of the earth. "
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The Congress tonight changed january 19th the date for the National Assembly from February 16th .
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These forty--Independents and Spartacans--tried vainly to have a resolution passed committing the russian soviet Germany system, but the vast majority would have none of it.
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New light is thrown on the old Vollzugsrat by the fact that it had invited the Russian Government to send the congress delegates .
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The cabinet had learned of this in time, and a week before the Congress was to assemble it sent petrograd a wireless message , asking the government to abstain from sending delegates "in view of the present situation in Germany. "
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The division demanded that it be permitted to increase five thousand its numbers and that it be made a part of the Republican Soldier Guard in charge of the city's police service.
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Early in the afternoon of December 23d they sought out Barth, the member of the cabinet who stood closest to them, and gave him the keys .
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While this was going on, a detachment of Marines had entered Wels's office, compelled him at the point of their guns to pay out the eighty thousand marks due them, and had then marched the royal stables , where he was locked up in a cellar and threatened with death him .
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At the party's caucuses in Greater Berlin on December 26th, held to nominate candidates for delegates to the coming National Assembly, Ledebour refused to permit his name to be printed on the same ticket with Haase's, and Eichhorn secured the party's head 326 votes to 271 .
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On the evening of the same day the Independents in the cabinet submitted the vollzugsrat eight formulated questions , in which this body was asked to define its attitude as to various matters.
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For years he had been an unwashed, unshorn and unshaven literary loafer in Berlin cafés, whose chief ability consisted in securing a following of naïve persons willing to buy him drinks .
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Rosa Luxemburg openly summoned battle her hearers .
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Thursday morning found the government decided to put the unbearable conditions an end .
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The government further addressed the people a proclamation , addressing them this time as Mitbürger (fellow-citizens), instead of Genossen.
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In the first days of the uprising they had sent the war ministry a detachment of Spartacans to present the proclamation and take charge of that department's affairs, and only the presence of mind and courage of a young officer had prevented the scheme from succeeding.
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After the two had been questioned, preparations were made to take the city prison in moabit them .
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There was nevertheless much apprehension regarding the form which the vengeance of the victims' followers might take, but this confined verbal attacks on the bourgeoisie and majority socialists , and denunciation of noske's " white guard , " as the loyal soldiers who protected the law-abiding part of the population were termed itself in the main .
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Defeated in Berlin, the Bolsheviki turned the coast cities their attention .
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The total membership of the National Convention was to have been 433 delegates, but the French authorities in charge of the troops occupying Alsace-Lorraine refused to permit elections to be held there, which reduced 421 the assembly's membership .
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It has given many other men whose names are revered by educated people the world over shelter .
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It is reminiscent of days when militarism and imperialism had not yet corrupted a "people of thinkers and dreamers, " of days when culture had not yet given kultur way , of days before a simple, industrious people had been converted to a belief in their mission to impose the ideals of Preussen-Deutschland upon the world with "the mailed fist" and "in shining armor. "
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Few political leaders have ever enjoyed a greater degree the confidence and trust of their followers .
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"The Allies and the United States have in view the extent deemed necessary the provisioning of Germany during the armistice necessary.
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Despite the (at least inferential) promise in the armistice that Germany should be revictualled, not a step had been taken toward doing this when, on January 13th, more than two months after the signing of the armistice, President Wilson sent administration leaders in congress a message urging the appropriation of one hundred million dollars for food-relief in Europe.
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After the actual overthrow of the old government a short period of excited optimism gives a realization of the fact that the administration of a state is not so simple as it has appeared to the opposition parties , and that the existing order of things--the result of centuries of natural development--cannot be altered over night place .
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Then, on March 19th, the French Colonel Vix sent karolyi a note establishing a new demarcation line far inside the one established in November and at places even inside the lines held by Allied troops.
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Scores of well-to-do Germans expressed the author themselves in the same strain , and thousands from the lower classes, free from the restraint which the possession of worldly goods imposes, put into execution the threat of their wealthier countrymen.
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Such a treaty could not bring the world real peace even if the conditions were less critical and complex.
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The plan to reduce mere governmental departments the states was thus already defeated.
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On February 21st the committee submitted the national assembly , which referred it in turn to a special committee of twenty-eight members , whose chairman was conrad haussmann , a member of the german democratic party the result of its deliberations .
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