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Although dinner was not to be until one o'clock, Julien thought it more respectful to present himself at half past twelve in the study of the Governor of the Poorhouse.
She had just seen the possibility of spending twelve hours in Julien's company.
More than once, he was on the point of being arrested by the sentries for making his way into places from which the engineers of the garrison excluded the public, in order to make a profit of twelve or fifteen francs every year by the sale of the hay grown there.
As he finished speaking, the quarter before twelve struck, at once the big bell began to toll.
Twelve years earlier, M. l'abbe de Frilair had arrived at Besancon with the lightest of portmanteaux, which, the story went, contained his entire fortune.
I have undertaken that, by the end of three months, you will have learned to compose these answers to such effect that, of every twelve which you present to the Marquis for his signature, he will be able to sign eight or nine.
'But what appeals to Mademoiselle Mathilde, as she told me herself, seven or eight years ago, when she was only twelve, for she has a head, such a head!
About eleven o'clock the moon rose, at half-past twelve it lighted the whole garden front of the house.
I have answered for you, I am going to take you to a room where there will be twelve persons assembled; you will take note of what each of them says.
He counted twelve people seated round the green cloth.
Make your way to Strasbourg as best you can, and on the twenty-second of the month'--it was now the tenth--'be in this coffee-house here at half-past twelve.
'His uncle has done ten or twelve years of service in this drawing-room, otherwise I should have him shown the door this instant.'
'Among the twelve persons charged with the duty of finding whether your protege's crime is proven, and especially whether there was premeditation, I number six friends devoted to my welfare, and I have given them to understand that it rested with them to raise me to the episcopate.
But presently his whole attention was absorbed in twelve or fifteen pretty women who, seated opposite the dock, filled the three galleries above the bench and the jurybox.
Harris said that we should be wanting to start in less than twelve hours' time, and thought that he and George had better do the rest; and I agreed and sat down, and they had a go.
"Now we shan't get on the water till after twelve.
By twelve o'clock, with the sun pouring into the room, the heat became quite oppressive, and we wondered when those heavy showers and occasional thunderstorms were going to begin.
We passed Skiplake as the clock was striking the quarter to twelve; and then George said, thoughtfully:"You don't happen to remember which of the islands it was, do you?"
"No, I didn't," grunted Harris; "I said twelve.
For a while she had kept both herself and the child on the twelve shillings a week that twelve hours' drudgery a day procured her, paying six shillings out of it for the child, and keeping her own body and soul together on the remainder.
We passed through Iffley Lock at about half-past twelve, and then, having tidied up the boat and made all ready for landing, we set to work on our last mile.
In making the arrangements by which Captain Lawton had been left, with Sergeant Hollister and twelve men, as a guard over the wounded, and heavy baggage of the corps, Dunwoodie had consulted not only the information which had been conveyed in the letter of Colonel Singleton, but the bruises of his comrade's body.
He had besides the things before mentioned, twelve marbles, part of a jews-harp, a piece of blue bottle-glass to look through, a spool cannon, a key that wouldn't unlock anything, a fragment of chalk, a glass stopper of a decanter, a tin soldier, a couple of tadpoles, six fire-crackers, a kitten with only one eye, a brass door-knob, a dog-collar--but no dog--the handle of a knife, four pieces of orange-peel, and a dilapidated old window sash.
Mary gave him a brand-new "Barlow" knife worth twelve and a half cents; and the convulsion of delight that swept his system shook him to his foundations.
He was from Constantinople, twelve miles away--so he had travelled, and seen the world--these very eyes had looked upon the county court-house--which was said to have a tin roof.
Now, no doubt you know the names of all the twelve disciples.
At the end of a long twelve or fifteen minutes the wheels stopped, and Tom slipped overboard and swam ashore in the dusk, landing fifty yards downstream, out of danger of possible stragglers.
By and by they judged that twelve had come; they marked where the shadow fell, and began to dig.
But the night remained clear, and Huck closed his watch and retired to bed in an empty sugar hogshead about twelve.
The sum amounted to a little over twelve thousand dollars.
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