I gather, on the whole, our artillery captain was not great in law.

Two articles refer to a matter I must deal with more at length, and rather from the point of view of the white residents.
The common charge against Brandeis was that of favouring the German firm.
Coming as he did, this was inevitable.

Weber had bought Steinberger with hard cash; that was matter of history.

The present government he did not even require to buy, having founded it by his intrigues, and introduced the premier to Samoa through the doors of his own office.

And the effect of the initial blunder was kept alive by the chatter of the clerks in bar- rooms, boasting themselves of the new government and prophesying annihilation to all rivals.