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"But you remember the reorganizing syndicate got five millions, and then the contracts for the new work had to be given to construction companies in which directors of the road were silent partners. Then they are interested in the supply companies from which I must buy. You know what all that means, Mr. Roebuck." "No doubt," said Roebuck, still smooth and soft.
"Like a book. I got pet names for all the trees." "There's a man there I want." "Logan?" "No. His name is Bard." "H-m! Any relation of the old bird that was partners with you back about the year one?" "I want Anthony Bard brought here," said. Drew, entirely overlooking the question. "Easy. I can make the trip in a buckboard and I'll dump him in the back of it." "No.
John Pierce took advantage of the prominence given him by the patent issued in his name for the benefit of all, to get a new one which made him sole actual owner of the territory. His partners resented this injustice, and the Council for New England, in March, 1623, was induced to revoke the grant to Pierce. About this time Bradford made a great change in the industrial system of the colony.
"Lord Ellersdeane, sir," he announced. "Can he see you?" The two partners looked at each other in evident surprise; then Gabriel moved to the door and bowed solemnly to some person outside. "Will your lordship come in?" he said politely. Lord Ellersdeane, a big, bustling, country-squire type of man, came into the room, nodding cheerily to its occupants. "Sorry to disturb you, Mr.
If the ray simply nullified gravity, the buildings down there, while weightless, would not rise as they did. They might sway if somebody breathed against them. A midget might lift one with his finger; but they wouldn't fly skyward as they did and do!" For a moment the partners ceased their whispering and talked together naturally to disarm suspicion.
They drove all over the town, stopping now and then to speak with some of their friends, or to answer questions as to Abner's health; and when it was nearly time to return home Toby turned the ponies' heads towards the pasture, where he knew his partners were waiting for him according to agreement.
But in that requirement the play of their natural reactions tended to become paralysed, and the delicate mechanism of their instincts often disturbed. They were forbidden, except in a few carefully etiquetted forms, the free play of courtship, without which they could not perform their part in the erotic life with full satisfaction either to themselves or their partners.
The whole objects and ends of the Partnership, the application of the joint funds, skill, labour, and enterprize of all the Partners of the common business, can no longer be attained. Thus a Partnership between alien friends, is at once defeated when they become alien enemies. This dissolution, however, only has respect to the future. The parties remain bound for all antecedent engagements.
He turned and ran back across the road in response to brawling shouts from the men whose thirst seemed to have been renewed by their encounter with the masterful man they called "Bully," and the partners, glad to escape from such a place, headed their animals upward into the hills. It was the day after the halt at the road house.
The mother was compelled to remain away, and it often happened that she was unable to go with Sidonie to meet the partners when they came from Paris at night. "You will make my excuses," she would say, as the went up to her room. Madame Risler was triumphant.
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