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Neilson's intelligence that, after some reductions had been made, the required supply was voted, not in a bill, providing for the payment of stipulated sums to certain individuals, but in a bill in which allowances were made for six different departments and a supply voted for the whole.
"I beg your pardon, but why, Miss Hawthorn! It is Miss Hawthorn; isn't it?" Under his questioning eyes the girl's pale face became so painfully scarlet that in sheer pity the man turned his eyes away. He thought he had seen women blush before, but he decided now that he had not. "I'm sure haven't I met you at Miss Neilson's? Are you ill? Can't I do something for you?" he begged.
Yet England had borrowed her first cannon-maker from France in the person of Peter Baude, as described in chap. iii. Wilkinson is also said to have invented a kind of hot-blast, in respect of which various witnesses gave evidence on the trial of Neilson's patent in 1839; but the invention does not appear to have been perfected by him. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 8th ed. Art.
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