There are about twenty-one
missions in this province, most of which were established about fifty years since, and are generally under the care of the Franciscans.
"I refuse to accept this extraordinary
mission," Pailleton declared, rising to his feet.
"No, Monsieur: I accepted my
mission in good faith.
Neither public nor private influences produce the slightest effect on us, when we have once got our
mission. Taxation may be the consequence of a
mission; riots may be the consequence of a
mission; wars may be the consequence of a
mission: we go on with our work, irrespective of every human consideration which moves the world outside us.
"He is now working--in other words, he is now deliberately risking his life--in the
Mission to Green Anchor Fields.
Guillaume Lejean, intrusted with a
mission by the French Government, reached Karthoum by way of the Red Sea, and embarked upon the Nile with a retinue of twenty-one hired men and twenty soldiers, but he could not get past Gondokoro, and ran extreme risk of his life among the negro tribes, who were in full revolt.
The colonel respectfully informed His Majesty of Balashev's
mission, whose name he could not pronounce.
He clad his soul in armor by means of happening hilariously in at a
mission church where a man composed his sermons of "yous." While they got warm at the stove, he told his hearers just where he calculated they stood with the Lord.
Now let us return to the
mission with which you wish to charge me; and as I desire to continue to merit the confidence of your Eminence, deign to unfold it to me in terms clear and precise, that I may not commit an error."
The Conservative candidate had announced his intention of addressing a meeting at Blackstable; and Josiah Graves, having arranged that it should take place in the
Mission Hall, went to Mr.
At the period of which I am now writing, the home government had decided on sending a special diplomatic
mission to one of the native princes ruling over a remote province of our Indian empire.
Fentolin," he added, with the air of one making a last effort to preserve his temper, "the
mission with which I am charged is one of greater importance than you can imagine.
