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Could I have the heart to turn my back upon the gate of the world of wonders which was just opening to me? "'Yes, said I to myself; 'I have the heart to do anything that will prevent my losing the love of Mary Armat. "Then an evil thought came to me, and tempted me: 'If you choose you can hear the monkeys talk and have Mary too. Everything you want is in your own hands.
"Miss Mary Armat and I had been friends since the days in which we went to school together. I had always liked her above the other girls of my acquaintance, and about three years previous to the time of this story I had almost made up my mind that I was in love with her, and that I would tell her so. This, however, I had not done.
Few philanthropists have left their money so wisely or with such thoughtful provisions to meet changing conditions. Erected in 1801 by Thomas Armat; Solitude, Blockley Township, Fairmount Park.
I did not want to pretend to be deaf, and, even if I did so, I could not explain why I wished to be spoken to in a language I did not use myself. "In the midst of my cogitations and uncertainties, I received a note from Mary Armat which, for a time, drove from my mind all thought of translatophone and everything concerning it.
"'I cannot explain that, Miss Castle, I said, 'for it would take a long time, and here we are at your door. "'Come in and let me try it, said Sarah. "'Thank you very much, I replied, 'but I really cannot. I have an engagement at my club. In fact, I was just going to take leave of Miss Armat when you came in. "She looked at me scrutinizingly.
The elder Armat originally settled in Loudoun County, Virginia, and hence the name of the estate. Coming to Philadelphia about the time of the Revolution, his family moved to Germantown during the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 and found it such a pleasing place of residence that the building of Loudoun some years later came as a natural consequence.
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