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While the American vessels in the river above Fort Mifflin, the name given to the fort on Mud Island, rendered it difficult to forage in Jersey, Washington hoped to render his supplies on the side of Pennsylvania so precarious as to compel him to evacuate Philadelphia. The advantages of this situation were considerably diminished by the capture of the Delaware frigate.
"Well, keep it dark about the young lady," said the bookseller. "I don't want all you young blades dropping in here to unsettle her mind. If she falls in love with anybody in this shop, it'll have to be Joseph Conrad or John Keats!" As he passed out, Gilbert saw Roger Mifflin engaged in argument with a bearded man who looked like a college professor. "Carlyle's Oliver Cromwell?" he was saying.
I bought a whole set of books last year from an agent 'The World's Great Funeral Orations' twenty volumes. Sam and I ain't read more'n the first volume yet. It's awful uneasy reading!" Mifflin jumped down, and raised the side flap of the wagon. Mrs. Mason came closer. I was tickled to see how the little man perked up at the sight of a customer. Evidently selling books was meat and drink to him.
You went on board that ship happy, careless, heart-free. You came off it grave and saddened. Thenceforth, for you, the world could contain but one woman, and her you had lost." Mifflin groaned in a hollow and bereaved manner, and took a sip from his glass to buoy him up. Jimmy moved restlessly on the sofa. "Do you believe in love at first sight?" he asked, fatuously.
I had been surrounded with fancied beings; with mere airy nothings, conjured up by poetic power; yet which, to me, had all the charm of reality. By permission of, and by arrangement with, the publishers of Hawthorne's works, Houghton, Mifflin Co.
Weintraub said there were a lot of old books in it for a friend of his. It's very heavy." "Look here," said Roger, and his voice rang sharply. "This is important. I don't want you to touch that suitcase. Leave it wherever it is, and DON'T TOUCH IT. Promise me." "Yes, Mr. Mifflin. Had I better put it in a safe place?" "Bock's sniffing at it now." "Don't touch it, and don't let Bock touch it.
I may, therefore, have said something indiscreet. But I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and, if it be the pleasure of Almighty God, to die by. From "Speeches and Addresses," with the permission of the author and of Houghton Mifflin Company, publishers. I was a boy ten years old when the troops marched away to defend Washington.
By arrangement with, and by permission of, the publishers, Houghton, Mifflin Co. The Temple is crowded with the ghosts of fiction. Here were the neglected chambers, lumbered with heaps and parcels of books, where Tom Pinch was set to work by Mr. Fips, and where old Martin Chuzzlewit revealed himself in due time and knocked Mr. Pecksniff into a corner. Here Mr.
Looking across out of the aisle the true way to judge the real height at last comes out, and we are reminded of some of the most stately minsters of France.... By arrangement with, and by permission of, the publishers of Hawthorne's works, Houghton, Mifflin Co.
If you intend to stay, please call me a taxi." Aubrey was as angry as she was. "I'm going," he said. "But you've got to play fair with me. I tell you on my oath, these two men, Mifflin and Weintraub, are framing something up. I'm going to get the goods on them and show you. But you mustn't put them wise that I'm on their track. If you do, of course, they'll call it off.
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