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# Ethel Churchill/Volume 2

ETHEL CHURCHILL:
OR,
THE TWO BRIDES.
BY THE AUTHOR OF
"THE IMPROVVISATRICE," "FRANCESCA CARRARA," "TRAITS AND TRIALS OF EARLY LIFE," ETC. ETC.
"Yet knowing something—dimly though it be; And, therefore, still more awful—of that strange And most tumultuous thing, the heart of man. It chanceth oft that, mix'd with nature's smiles, My soul beholds a solemn quietness That almost looks like grief, as if on earth There were no perfect joy, and happiness— Still trembled on the brink of misery."—Wilson.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.
M.DCCC.XXXVII.
LONDON: PRINTED BY JAMES MOYES, CASTLE STREET, LEICESTER SQUARE.

## Volume 2

* Chapter 1
* Chapter 2
* Chapter 3
* Chapter 4
* Chapter 5
* Chapter 6
* Chapter 7
* Chapter 8
* Chapter 9
* Chapter 10
* Chapter 11
* Chapter 12
* Chapter 13
* Chapter 14
* Chapter 15
* Chapter 16
* Chapter 17
* Chapter 18
* Chapter 19
* Chapter 20
* Chapter 21
* Chapter 22
* Chapter 23
* Chapter 24
* Chapter 25
* Chapter 26
* Chapter 27
* Chapter 28
* Chapter 29
* Chapter 30
* Chapter 31
* Chapter 32
* Chapter 33
* Chapter 34
* Chapter 35
* Chapter 36
* Chapter 37
* Chapter 38
* Chapter 39
* Chapter 40
* Chapter 41
# Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Debt

See also Debt on Wikipedia; Debt on Wikipedia, Debt in the 11th edition; and the disclaimer.
​DEBT is a sum certain due by one person to another. It may be created by contract, by statute, or by judgment. By the Judicature Act, 1873, any absolute assignment of any debt or other legal chose in action, of which express notice in writing shall have been given to the debtor, trustee, or other person from whom the assignor would have been entitled to receive or claim such debt, shall be effectual in law. If the debtor receives notice that such assignment is disputed by the assignor, or any one claiming under him, he may call upon the parties to interplead con cerning the same, or he may pay the money into court in conformity with the Acts for the Relief of Trustees. Order xlv. of the Rules of Court under the same Act contains the provisions under which the debts due to a person against whom a judgment has passed for the payment of money may be attached by the judgment creditor. See BANKRUPTCY.
# Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Decapolis

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​DECAPOLIS, a district of Palestine, or perhaps rather a confederation of districts, situated, with the exception of a small portion, on the eastern side of the Upper Jordan and the Sea of Tiberias. Its boundaries are not accurately known, and probably were never precisely defined. It evidently takes its name from the fact that it included ten cities ([Greek]), but the ancient geographers do not agree as to which these ten cities were. This difference of statement may be explained by the supposition that, like the Cinque Ports of England, Decapolis preserved its original designation after new members were received into the confederation, and perhaps some of the old members had lost their connection. Pliny recognizes the uncertainty, but gives the following list : Damascus, Philadelphia, Raphana, Scythopolis (on the west side of the Jordan), Gadara, Hippo, Dion, Pella, Galasa (Gerasa), and Canatha. Damascus is the only one that retains its importance ; Scythopolis, or Beth-Shean, which seems to have been anciently the next in size, is represented by the village of Beisan ; and Gerasa, Canatha or Kenath, and Pella are of interest only for their ruins. Decapolis was placed by the Romans under the jurisdiction of the Syrian governor, and seems to have enjoyed special privileges. Regarding the rise and decay of the confederation we have no precise information, but it was at the height of its prosperity in the time of Christ.
# Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Decimus Magnus Ausonius

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​AUSONIUS, DECIMTJS MAGNUS, a Koman poet of the 4th century, was the son of an eminent physician, and born at Burdigala (Bordeaux} about 310 A.D. His education was conducted with unusual care, either because his genius was very promising, or because the scheme of his nativity, which had been cast by his maternal grandfather, was found to promise great fame and advancement. He made extraordinary progress in classical learning ; and, after completing his studies at Toulouse, he practised for a time at the bar in his- native place. At the age of thirty he became a teacher of grammar, and soon afterwards was promoted to the professorship of rhetoric. In this office he acquired so great a reputation that he was appointed pre ceptor to Gratian, the Emperor Valentinian s son. The rewards and honours conferred on him for the faithful discharge of his duties, prove the truth of Juvenal s maxim that when Fortune pleases she can raise a man from the humble rank of rhetorician to the dignity of consul. He was appointed consul by the Emperor Gratian in the year 379, after having filled other important offices ; for besides the dignity of quaestor, to which he had been nominated by Valentinian, he was made prefect of Latium, of Libya, and of Gaul, after that prince s death. His speech, returning thanks to Gratian on his promotion to the consulship, is a good specimen of high-flown rhetorical flattery. The time of his death is uncertain, but he was alive in 388, and probably survived till about 394. From references in his works he appears to have been a convert to Christianity. Of his prose writings, there are extant the Actio ad Gratianum, the Periochce (or summaries) in Iliadem et Odysseam, and one or two of the Epistolce. The principal pieces in verse are the Epigrammata, some of which are extremely felicitous ; the Parentalia and Commemoratio Professorum Burdigalensium, which give interesting details concerning his relations and literary friends; the Epistolce; and, finally, the Idyllia, a collection of twenty small poems, the most famous of which are the Cento Nuptialis, an obscene selection of lines from Virgil, and the Mosella, a descriptive poem on the river Moselle, containing some good passages. Ausonius was rather a man of letters than a poet ; his wide reading supplied him with materials for verse, but his works exhibit no traces of a true poetic spirit; even his versification, though ingenious, is frequently defective. The best editions of his works are those of Tollius (Amsterdam, 1669), and Souchay (Paris, 1730), and the Bipontine (1785). The Mosella has been edited separately by Bocking (1828, 1842).
# Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Decatur

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​DECATUR, a flourishing city of the United States, capital of Macon county, Illinois, situated in the midst of a rich agricultural district to the right of the Sangamon river,- at a railway junction about 38 miles east of Spring field. It is well built, and has 15 churches and 24 public schools ; but none of its edifices are individually remarkable. Among its industrial establishments is a large rolling mill. Population in 1870, 7161.
# Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Debreczyn

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​DEBRECZYN, or Debretzyn, a royal free city of Hungary, the chief town of the comitat of Hadju, and one of the largest in the kingdom, is situated in the midst of a slightly elevated sandy plain 114 miles east of Pesth, with which it is connected by rail. It is a meanly-built, straggling town, with irregular suburbs stretching out into the plain ; its wide roadways are only paved with wood down, the centre and along the sides ; its houses are with few exceptions only one story high, and the courtyards or gardens with which they are usually furnished give the whole place the appearance of an overgrown village, in spite of the number of its public buildings. The most prominent of these is the principal Protestant church, which ranks as the largest in the country, but has no great architectural pretensions. In its immediate neighbourhood is the Protestant Collegium, a large and flourishing institu tion founded in 1792, and possessed of an extensive library. The town-house, the Franciscan church, the Piarist monastery and college, and the theatre are worthy of mention ; there are also hospitals, two gymnasiums, and an agricultural academy. The industries of the town are pretty various, but none of them are of importance enough to give it the character of a manufacturing centre. Its tobacco-pipes, of the genuine national style, its sausages, and its soap are widely known ; and the first of the three are imported to England and France. Flour and beet-root sugar are also manufactured. Every three months the neighbouring plain is covered with the booths and bustle of a great fair ; but since the opening of the railway there is hardly so extensive a concourse as before. Between 300 and 400 square miles of territory belong to the municipality, which derives a large annual revenue from the woods, pas tures, &c. The inhabitants are, with very few exceptions, of Magyar origin and Calvinistic creed, and are in bad repute for their alleged selfishness and inhospitality. The town is of considerable antiquity, but owes its develop ment to the refugees who flocked from the villages plundered by the Turks in the 15th century. In 1552 it adopted the Protestant faith, and it had to suffer in consequence, especially when it was captured in 1 686 by the imperial forces. In 1693 it was made a royal free city. In 1848-9 it formed a refuge for the National Government and Legislature when Buda-Pesth fell into the hands of the Austrians ; and it was in the great Calvinist church that Kossuth read the proclamation that declared the house of Hapsburg to have forfeited the crown of Stephen. On the 3d of July the town was captured by the Russians. Population in 1869, 46,111.
# Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/December

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DECEMBER, the last month of the year. In the Roman calendar, traditionally ascribed to Romulus, the year was divided into ten months, the last of which was called December, or the tenth month, and this name, though etymologically incorrect, was retained for the last or twelfth month of the year as now divided. In the Romulian calendar December had thirty days; Numa reduced the number to twenty-nine; Julius Cæsar added two days to this, giving the month its present length. The Saturnalia occurred in December, which is therefore styled “acceptus geniis” by Ovid (Fasti, iii. 58); and this also explains the phrase of Horace “libertate Decembri utere” (Sat. ii. 7). Martial applies to the month the epithet canus (hoary), and Ovid styles it gelidus (frosty) and fumosus (smoky). The Saxons called it winter-monat, or winter month, and heligh-monat, or holy month, from the fact that Christmas fell within it. The 22d December is the date of the winter solstice, when the sun reaches the tropic of Capricorn.
# Excellent new song, called Willie Wastle/My love is but a lassie yet

Dated from the Scottish Book Trade Index.
My Love is but a Lassie yet.
MY love she’s but a lassie yet, My love she’s but a lassie yet, We’ll let her stand a year or twa, She’ll no be half so saucy yet.
I rue the day I sought her O, I rue the day I sought her O, Wha gets her needna say she’s woo’d But he may say he’s bought her O.
FINIS.
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# Excellent new song, called Willie Wastle/The Sheffield prentice

Dated from the Scottish Book Trade Index.
The Sheffield Prentice.
I Was brought up in Sheffield, got of a high degree, My parents doated on me, they had no more but me. I rolled in such pleasure, just where my fancy led, Till I was bound apprentice, then all my joys were fled.
I did not like my master, he did not use me well, I took a resolution, not long with him to dwell. Unknown to my poor parents, from him I run away; I steered my course to London, O cursed be the day!
A handsome young lady, from Holland was there, She offered me great wages, to serve her for a year. O then with great persuasions, with her I did agree To go to live in Holland, which proved my destiny.
​I had not been in Holland past years two or three, Before that my young mistress grew very fund of me. She said her gold and silver her houses and her land, If I’d consent to marry her, should be at my command.
I said dear honoured lady, I cannot wed you both, For I have lately promised and made a solemn oath. To wed none but Polly, your pretty chamber-maid; Excuse me, my dear mistress, she has my heart betray’d.
Then in an angry humour, away from me did run, Resolv’d to be reveng’d on me, before that it was long. She being so perplexed, the could nor be my wife. That she would seek a project to take away my life.
One day as we were walking all in a garden gay, The flowers they were springing delightful and so gay, ​A gold ring from her finger, as I was passing by, She slipt into my pocket, and for it I must die.
My Mistress swore I robb’d her, and quickly I was brought. Before a grave old justice, to answer for my fault. Long time I pleaded innocence but it was no avail; She swore so sore against me that I was lent to jail.
Its now the last assizes are drawing on apace. And presently the judges will on me sentence pass. From the place of confinement they brought me to the tree, So woe to my mistress For she has ruin’d me.
All you that stand around me, my wretched fate to see, Don't glory in my downsal; I pray you pity me, Believe me I am quite innocent, I bid the world adieu; Farewell, my pretty Polly I die for love of you.
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# Excellent new song, called Willie Wastle/Henry's cottage maid

Dated from the Scottish Book Trade Index.
Henry’s Cottage Maid.
AH where can I fly my soul’s true love, Sad I wander this long grove, Sighs and tears for him I shed, Henry is from Laura fled, Thy love to me thou didst impart, Thy love soon won my virgin heart, But, dearest Henry, thou’ft betray’d Thy love with thy poor cottage maid.
Thro’ the vale my grief appears, Sighing sad with pearly tears: Oft thy image is my theme, As I wander on the green: See, my cheek the colour flies And love’s sweet hope within me dies; for oh! my dear Henry, thou’st betrayed Thy love with thy dear cottage maid.
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# Excellent new song, called Willie Wastle

Dated from the Scottish Book Trade Index.
An excellent New Song, called
WILLIE
WASTLE:
To which are added,
Henry’s Cottage Maid,
The SHEFFIELD PRENTICE,
Different Humours,
AND,
My Love is but a Lassie yet.
HADDINGTON:
Printed by G. Miller:—at whose Shop may be had a variety of Pamphlets, Ballads, Children’s Books, Pictures, Catechisms, &c.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
* An excellent new song, called Willie Wastle
* Henry's cottage maid
* The Sheffield prentice
* Different humours
* My love is but a lassie yet
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# Excellent new song, called Willie Wastle/An excellent new song, called Willie Wastle

Dated from the Scottish Book Trade Index.
Sic a Wife as Willie had.
WILLIE Wastle dwelt on Tweed, The spot they ca’d it Linkumdodie, Willie was a wabster gude, Cou’d stown a clue wi’ ony body, He had a wife was dour and din, O Tinkler Madgie was her micher Sic a wife as Willie had, I wad na gie a button for her.
She has an e’e, she has but ane, The cat has twa the very colour; Five rusty teeth forbye a stump, A clapper tongue wad deave a miller: A whiskin beard about her mou, Her nose and chin they threaten ither; Sic a wife, &c.
She’s bow hough’d, she’s hem-shinn’d. Ae limpin leg a hand breed shorter; She’s twisted right, she’s twisted left, To balance fair on ilka quarter; She has a hump upon her breast, The twin o’ that upon her shouther: Sic a wife, &c.
Auld baudrons by the ingle sits, An' wi her luse her face a-washin’; ​But Willie’s wife is nae sae trig, She dights her grunzic wi’ a hushion: Her wallie nieves like midden-creels, Her face wad syle the Logan-water; Sie a wife as Willie had, I wad na gie a button for her.
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# Excellent new song, called Willie Wastle/Different humours

Dated from the Scottish Book Trade Index.
Different Humours.
T’OTHER day as I walk’d in the park, the gentry being dress’d very fine. They all went away at the noon time of day, and for different taverns to dine.
The nobles to the King’s head will go, the gentry to the sign of the crown; The merchant you know to the gold fleece will go, and away to the plough will the clown,
The drover at the savage may be found, which humanity has mark’d with such scorn; The huntsman you know to the hound he will go, and the cuckold to the sign of the horn.
The clergy at the mitre will dine, the soldier at the sign of the gun; The butcher you know to the black bull will go, and the friar to the sign of the nun.
The player at the Shakespear may be found, the sailor to the anchor and cann; The lawyer you know to the devil he will go, anti the maid to the sign of the man.
​The Irishman fine, on potatoes will dine,
the Welchman on hard toasted cheese; The Scotsman you know to his crowdy he will go, and the Englishman to pudding and pease,
Thus it is every man in his station. search East, West, North, and South, And he who has no money in his pocket you know, may dine at the sign of the mouth.
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# Executive Order 12494

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Signed by President Ronald Reagan Thursday, December 6, 1984
Federal Register page & date: 49 FR 48175, Tuesday, December 11, 1984
By the authority vested in me as President of the United States of America by Section 301 (a) of Title 37 of the United States Code, and in order to define the scope of one category of hazardous duty, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Executive Order No. 11157 of June 22, 1964, as amended, is further amended by striking out subsection (b) of Section 109 of Part I and inserting in lieu thereof the following:
"(b) The term 'duty involving the demolition of explosives' shall be construed to mean duty performed by members who, pursuant to competent orders and as a primary duty assignment (1) demolish by the use of explosives objects, obstacles, or explosives, or recover and render harmless, by disarming or demolition, explosives which have failed to function as intended or which have become a potential hazard; (2) participate as students or instructors in instructional training, including that in the field or fleet, for the duties described in clause (1) hereof, provided that live explosives are used in such training; (3) participate in proficiency training, including that in the field or fleet, for the maintenance of skill in the duties described in clause (1) hereof, provided that live explosives are used in such training; or (4) experiment with or develop tools, equipment, or procedures for the demolition and rendering harmless of explosives, provided that live explosives are used."
Sec. 2. This Order shall be effective immediately.
RONALD REAGAN The White House, December 6, 1984.
[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 12:21 p.m., December 7, 1984] Note: The Executive order was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on December 7.
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# Executive Order 12496

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Signed by President Ronald Reagan Friday, December 28, 1984
Federal Register page & date: 50 FR 211, Thursday, January 3, 1985
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Statutory Pay Systems. Pursuant to the provisions of subchapter I of chapter 53 of title 5 of the United States Code, the rates of basic pay and salaries are adjusted, as set forth at the schedules attached hereto and made a part hereof, for the following statutory pay systems:
(a) The General Schedule (5 U.S.C. 5332(a) at Schedule 1;
(b) The Foreign Service Schedule (22 U.S.C. 3963) at Schedule 2; and
(c) The schedules for the Department of Medicine and Surgery, Veterans' Administration (38 U.S.C. 4107) at Schedule 3.
Sec. 2. Senior Executive Service. Pursuant to the provisions of section 5382 of title 5 of the United States Code, the rates of basic pay are adjusted, as set forth at Schedule 4 attached hereto and made a part hereof, for members of the Senior Executive Service.
Sec. 3. Executive Salaries. The Executive Salary Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act (Public Law 94-82; 89 Stat. 419) provides for adjustments in rates of pay and salaries as set forth at the schedules attached hereto and made a part hereof, for the following:
(a) The Vice President (3 U.S.C. 104) and the Executive Schedule (5 U.S.C. 53125316) at Schedule 5;
(b) Congressional Salaries (2 U.S.C. 31) at Schedule 6; and (c) Judicial Salaries (28 U.S.C. 5, 44(d), 135, 153(a), 172(b), and 252) at Schedule 7. Sec. 4. Pay and Allowances for Members of the Uniformed Services. Pursuant to the provisions of Section 601 of Public Law 98525, the rates of monthly basic pay (37 U.S.C. 203(a)), the rates of basic allowances for subsistence (37 U.S.C. 402), and rates of basic allowances for quarters (37 U.S.C. 403(a)) are adjusted, as set forth at Schedule 8 attached hereto and made a part hereof, for members of the uniformed services.
Sec. 5. Effective Date. The adjustments in rates of monthly basic pay and allowances for subsistence and quarters for members of the uniformed services, and all other adjustments of salary or rates of basic pay provided for herein, shall be effective on the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after January 1, 1985.
Sec. 6. Executive Order 12456 of December 30, 1983, as amended, is superseded.
RONALD REAGAN The White House, December 28, 1984.
[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 12:57 p.m., December 31, 1984] Note: The schedules are printed in the Federal Register of January 3, 1985.
The Executive order was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on December 29.
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