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Als Antwort auf: Medicine Lawyer Nationwide von Ceraentaife am 27.April 19111, 00:47:45:
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The reader may remember, that when I signed those articles upon which I recovered my liberty, there were some which I disliked upon account of their being too servile, neither could anything but an extreme necessity have forced me to submit. But being now a Nardac, of the highest rank in that empire, such offices were looked upon as below my dignity, and the Emperor (to do him justice) never once mentioned them to me. However, it was not long before I had an opportunity of doing his Majesty, at least, as I then thought, a most signal service. I was alarmed at midnight with the cries of many hundred people at my door; by which being suddenly awaked, I was in some kind of terror. I heard the word burglum repeated incessantly: several of the Emperor's court, making their way through the crowd, entreated me to come immediately to the Palace, where her Imperial Majesty's apartment was on fire, by the carelessness of a maid of honor, who fell asleep while she was reading a romance. I got up in an instant; and orders being given to clear the way before me, and it being likewise a moonshine night, I made a shift to get to the Palace without trampling on any of the people. I found they had already applied ladders to the walls of the apartment, and were well provided with buckets, but the water was at some distance. These buckets were about the size of a large thimble, and the poor people supplied me with them as fast as they could; but the flame was so violent that they did little good. I might easily have stifled it with my coat, which I unfortunately left behind me for haste, and came away only in my leathern jerkin. The case seemed wholly desperate and deplorable; and this magnificent palace would have infallibly been burned down to the ground, if, by a presence of mind, unusual to me, I had not suddenly thought of an expedient. I had the evening before drunk plentifully of a most delicious wine, called glimigrim (the Blefuscudians call it flunec, but ours is esteemed the better sort), which is very diuretic. By the luckiest chance in the world, I had not discharged myself of any part of it. The heat I had contracted by coming very near the flames, and by laboring to quench them, made the wine begin to operate my urine; which I voided in such a quantity, and applied so well to the proper places, that in three minutes the fire was wholly extinguished, and the rest of that noble pile, which had cost so many ages in erecting, preserved from destruction. Backhoe excavators Samsung se210lc-2 Heavy duty machine operator course Used heavy machines Crane schools Backhoe excavators Tracked loaders Heavy equipment operator jobs in nc Heavy truck auctions Antique heavy equipment Salvaged equipment Heavy duty equipment sales Salvage construction equipment Excavators sale Heavy equipment aftermarket parts Heavy equipment jobs in alaska Caterpillar equipments Heavy duty machinery Construction equipment lease Sale used equipment Used cars Heavy equipment operators course Machine operator training Heavy equipment forum Heavy duty machinery Logging equipment for sale Compact loaders Excavator sales Electric excavator Backhoe for sale John deere heavy machinery Backhoe control Caterpillar d6n xl Heavy equipment part Heavy equipment games online Blaw knox equipment Heavy equipment operator resume Used trucks sale Heavy equipment operator training in bc Heavy equipment suppliers Heavy duty lathe machine Backhoe loaders for sale Heavy equipment brands For sale trucks Construction training courses |
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