We would rather abide by your decision, O Excellency Our Governor."
The Governor read, not for the first time, the administration reports of one John Jorrocks, M.F.H.
The one has no particle of spiritual jurisdiction; the other is the supreme head and governor of the national church!
Candor, however, demands an acknowledgment that I do not think the claim of the governor to a right of nomination well founded.
Upon this the
governor said to the woman, "Let me see that purse, my worthy and sturdy friend." She handed it to him at once, and the
governor returned it to the man, and said to the unforced mistress of force, "Sister, if you had shown as much, or only half as much, spirit and vigour in defending your body as you have shown in defending that purse, the strength of Hercules could not have forced you.
"Will you see the register at once," asked the
governor, "or proceed to the other cell?"
The
Governor, and the gentlemen of his party, perceiving themselves brought to an unexpected stand, rode hastily forward, as if they would have pressed their snorting and affrighted horses right against the hoary apparition.
"Believe me, my dear
governor," said Aramis, drawing closer to Baisemeaux, "a young king is well worth an old cardinal.
At about the centre of the oaken panels that lined the hall was suspended a suit of mail, not, like the pictures, an ancestral relic, but of the most modern date; for it had been manufactured by a skilful armourer in London, the same year in which
Governor Bellingham came over to New England.
'Wish I may die,' cried Mr Riderhood, with a hoarse laugh, 'if I warn't a goin' to say the self-same words to you, T'otherest
Governor!'
But the
Governor did not finish: a dusty perspiring officer ran into the room and began to say something in French.
"Dear Cecily and all the rest of you," wrote the
Governor's wife, "I want to ask you to forgive me for pretending to be Aunt Eliza.