At first glance it might not seem that the decision of a certain Canadian
Premier to include Prince Edward Island in a political tour could have much or anything to do with the fortunes of little Anne Shirley at Green Gables.
Along Downing Street he made his way by the railings and rang the bell at last at the
Premier's house.
Last summer the islanders grew wearied, as their
premier explained, of "playing at being savages for pennies," and proceeded to pull down all the landing-towers on the island and shut off general communication till such time as the A.
The one, austere, high-nosed, eagle-eyed, and dominant, was none other than the illustrious Lord Bellinger, twice
Premier of Britain.
Her heart yearned after the ease and splendor of condition of a trapper's bride, and throbbed to be free from the capricious control of the
premier squaw; but she dreaded the failure of the plan, and the fury of a Shoshonie husband.
He did not even take the time to place himself in the hands of his valet de chambre for a minute, but from the perron went straight into the
premier salon.
It stood open, and just within was a sign: Bureau au
premier. I walked up narrow stairs, and on the landing found a sort of box, glassed in, within which were a desk and a couple of chairs.
Their host, the Duke of Dorset, in whose splendid library they were assembled, was, if not the
premier duke of the United Kingdom, at least one of those whose many hereditary offices and ancient family entitled him to a foremost place in the aristocracy of the world.
"Et les trois demoiselles du
premier banc?" said she.
When the tide receded she lay there on her side in the mud, quite a pitiable object for the
premier battle-ship of a world--"the terror of the seas" was the way Perry had occasionally described her.
They could take the
premier now, instead of the little entresol of the hotel which they occupied.
Even Glasgow, the
premier city of municipal ownership, met its Waterloo in the telephone.