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Being unknown to these farmers, I wondered if any one of them would really cut me a double handful of fresh young peach sprigs or suckers from their young trees, as the doctor had said. Did they really know him? Some one along the road a home-driving farmer told me of an old Mr. Mills who had a five-acre orchard farther on.
For example, she began to perceive that his life outside of his interest in the mills, instead of being the romance of privileged joys she had once imagined, had been almost as empty as her own, without either unity or direction. Her perception was none the less keen because definite terms were wanting for its expression.
Of these, in Ashton-under- Lyne, Dukinfield, and Mosley, there are fifty-three mills, Blackburn fifty- seven, Bolton forty-two, Burnley twenty-five spinning manufactories, at Heywood twenty-eight mills, Oldham one hundred and fifty-eight, Preston thirty-eight, Staley Bridge twenty, Stockport forty-seven mills, Warrington only four, Manchester seventy-eight.
If we run out they'll be sure to spot us, and it would mean capture sure." "Then what do you, advise, Blazes!" asked Roger. "That we see if there's a chance of getting down in the cellar and staying there. Some of these old mills had very thick foundation walls. I don't know just how long this one will stand up if many more such shells as the first one came over, but we can try it.
These gentlemen were so affected with the cold that they went to bed in their clothes, then got up to put on their overcoats, then got up again and put on their hats. On the floor lies a certain Mills of Manchester, rolled in all the rugs, except one which I have on, after surrendering my blankets.
Is it because there is no one in the world to care what would happen to me?” There was a deep-down vibration in her tone for the first time. We had not a word to say. And she added after a long silence: “There is a very good reason. There is a danger.” With wonderful insight Mills affirmed at once: “Something ugly.” She nodded slightly several times. Then Mills said with conviction: “Ah!
Among the many beneficent acts of Horatio Stebbins in his distinguished ministry in San Francisco was his influence in the establishment of the chair of Moral Philosophy in the University of California. It was the gift of D.O. Mills, who provided the endowment on the advice of Dr. Stebbins. The first occupant appointed was Professor Howison, who from 1884 to 1912 happily held a fruitful term.
This pretty stream furnishes power for mills, factories and lighting-plant, and is crossed several times by picturesque, roofed bridges, in the shelter of which one may spend hours in watching the dashing water, foaming cascades, curious potholes worn in the rocky banks, and the passing Indians.
"So I suppose; but I didn't come to the city for this." "If you don't like it you can leave in a few days." This Frank fully resolved to do at the first favorable opportunity. Dick showed him where he could buy the articles he was commissioned to purchase; and Frank, after obtaining them, went back to the tenement-house. Mills scrupulously demanded the change, and put it back into his pocket.
The fine old mills are still in lively operation, manufacturing into meal about a million bushels of wheat and Indian corn every year.
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