intendant's

We are now in the wee hours when I am supposed to close today's schedule [chuckles], and I, with the intendant's permission, will decorate myself with a gold medal for this. [laughter, applause]

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"What the devil do you mean?" asked the Count, taking hold of the intendant's hand.

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"We have finished just in time," she continued, arranging the intendant's papers.

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The intendant's wife received the child with great joy.

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Printed in small type these decrees of the intendant's make up a bulky volume, the present-day interest of which is only to show how often the hand of authority thrust itself into the daily walk and conversation of Old Canada.

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Two years later, owing largely to the intendant's unceasing efforts, it had practically doubled.

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This investigation, on the intendant's advice, was entrusted to an engineer, Gedeon de Catalogne.

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As the sovereign's great interest in the colony moved him to speak often, the intendant's activity was prodigious.

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I stooped until my lips were on a level with my intendant's ear.

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In 1679 the altercation on this point was brought to an issue by the arrest, at the intendant's instance, of La Toupine, a retainer of

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