Your informant could not tell you if the picture was finished--whether the men were coming again?
Each one knew that had there not been an alleviating solution of the trouble, the informant would not have been able to throw off the despondency which was fast becoming the possession of all.
From the same informant I learned that Fontana married a lady who had an income for life, and that by this marriage he was enabled to retire from the active exercise of his profession.
And from the same informant I learned also that Madame Leo as well as her husband took a kindly interest in Chopin, showing this, for instance, by providing him with linen.
From any other informant I would not have accepted this statement as probable, still less as true.
Princess Czartoryska arrived some time after Chopin, and accompanied him, my informant says, wherever he went.
According to this informant there were many quarrels between mother and daughter, the former objecting to the latter's frequent visits to Chopin, and using this as a pretext to break with him.
He also apprized the said Don Felipe Crame, that he was under an obligation to denounce his friend, and as the informant knows not whether this has been performed, he gives the present information in order fully to discharge his conscience.
All of these the informant has seen, but remembers only one, which represents a young man taking hold of a female who has her bosom indecently exposed.
My informant also stated that Axis possessed the power to restrain the tempests, for as they were returning in company from St Cypria, a storm overtook them, and he was in great terror.
The informant undertook to make an accusation in the name of the above persons.
Axis replied to him, that he had no way to get a living, but my informant persisted in his refusal.
My informant offered to pilot me thither so soon as it should be thoroughly dark.
My informant reported that he saw no cross on the last two plates, but when the four prints came to hand the cross appeared on three of them.
For Admiral Blake hath been collecting his ships at Portsmouth, and our informant says that they were to sail to-day, eighty vessels of war.
Our informant was plainly asked by this gentleman, how the islanders would take it if there should be an overture of giving them up to the French.
Before we go any farther," he said, "would you mind telling me who yourinformant is on this point?
Of this our informant could not speak, for he had not always been with him on these journeys.
I should like to be your informant that you were promoted to a higher rank, and to call you the Centurion Longinus.
The same unknown informant told the American Legation that Miss Cavell was prosecuted "for having helped English and French soldiers as well as Belgian young men to cross the frontier and to go over to England.
This does not give the lover of fair play a great deal of comfort, for if the anonymous informant was not a lawyer, the value to be attached to his or her estimate of Kirschen's plea must be regarded as doubtful.
Then," as our informant says, "they will commit any crime to get it.
It all depends upon the manner in which your informant in the States regards the Indian Question whether the agents are described as scoundrels whom no man could trust, or as gentlemen of high propriety and general excellence.
That this informant went away to call the guard, and met Capt.
Shortland called to them to follow him, and this informant returned with him, and by this time the prisoners had forced the gate, and many hundreds had assembled in the Market Square.
Shortland pulled the trigger or not, this informant does not know, and immediately after there was firing at the left.
Shortland at their head, and saw him form the men in one line, extending across the square, and he then ordered them to charge, whereupon the prisoners retreated into the prison yard, when the informant heard Capt.
That this informant did not see any of the officers with the soldiers when Capt.
That this informant did not hear any person give any orders to fire, that he was near to Capt.
That just as Captain Shortland gave the orders, this informantsaw the prisoners force the gate No.
That this informant observed a large body of prisoners assembled at the other gate, at the opposite side of the Market Square.
He was at the store in the Market Square, standing by the door; and the wagon with the bread was partly unladen, when this informant heard some persons talking loud at the gate at the uppercut (i.
Richard Arnold, one of the turnkeys, after stating the fact of the hole in the wall and Captain Shortland’s examination of it: “This informant then returned to the Market Square leaving Capt.
That this informant stopped a few minutes, and the soldiers fired several rounds, and the soldiers were firing from the walls up the prison.
Shortland give orders for the soldiers to fire upon the prisoners, whereupon this informant ran into No.
My informant had led me to expect that it would be visited by certain German gentlemen.
They conversed quite freely, and confirmed my informantin every particular.
The last news my informant had of her was that she was lying sick, in the most miserable condition, her breast having risen, inflamed, and burst!
My "guessing" informant had followed me even there, though he evidently understood not a word of Welsh.
My informant saw one trader who was taking down to New Orleans 100 horses, some sheep, and between fifty and sixty slaves.
I cannot vouch, of course, for the information personally, but I believe the informant is a reliable and a responsible person.
Do you consider the informant a reliable, responsible person?
Would your informant be willing, as far as you know--be willing to testify and give the Commission this information directly?
And he tells us that he will try to find out from his informant more about that, and if he possibly can deliver the information to us.
Can I indicate to my informant that the matter can be so raised so that his name will not be known to anyone other than the Commission?
Our informant next spoke of the wonderful partiality of Dickens to cricket; he would stand out all night if he could watch a cricket match.
Our informant also referred to a conversation between Dickens and some of his friends at Gad's Hill, respecting the unhappy marriages of actors.
Our informant was also present at Gad's Hill Place at several theatrical entertainments, and especially remembers some charades being given.
Speaking of Dickens's readings, our informant relates a conversation with Charles Dickens's sixth son, Mr. Henry Fielding Dickens.
Our informant did a good deal of work for Charles Dickens at Gad's Hill Place, and remarked "he was one of the nicest customers I ever met in my life--so thoroughly precise and methodical.
This remarkable resemblance, our informant says, is "something to be proud of, to be mistaken for so great a man, but it was very inconvenient at times.
We found our informant to be wonderfully genial, hale and hearty, although in his eighty-fifth year.
On one occasion our informant remembers a stoppage of the train in Higham tunnel, which caused some consternation to the passengers, as no explanation of the delay was forthcoming from any of the railway officials.
They claimed to be Union soldiers; but my informant stated that they robbed all they came to, regardless of their political sentiments.
Mercante's informant assured him that practically every girl had her affinity, and that there were at least twenty well-defined love affairs.
At this time one of my schoolfellows saw a common workman, known to me by name, bathing in a stream with some companions; all his body was, my informant told me, covered with hair from throat to belly.
My informant does not know how long this painful life went on, nor does it matter much.
One informant states as follows:-- There is always a cow tail hanging down from the center post.
A Piegan informantcomments as follows: The woman can either buy or borrow a natoas.
The following statement of an informanthas a bearing upon this point:-- The natoas is said to have come from the Elk.
My informantwas Professor Tholuck, of Halle University, the most eminent living theologian in Germany, and the principal ecclesiarch of the Prussian Church.
The informant understood readily enough, and promised with equal readiness, even going so far as to say that that would suit him down to the ground.
