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The duke of Shrewsbury received orders to prorogue this parliament, which was divided against itself, and portended nothing but domestic broils. Then he obtained leave to return to England, leaving chancellor Phipps, with the archbishop of Armagh and Tuam, justices of the kingdom.
The family was ennobled in the reign of Charles the Second. William Phipps, the founder of the Mulgrave or Normanby family, was a man quite as remarkable in his way as Richard Foley. His father was a gunsmith a robust Englishman settled at Woolwich, in Maine, then forming part of our English colonies in America.
The date is burned in my memory." "You see, there's no time to lose," said Eleanor. "I'd rather die than do it, but I'll ask Harold Phipps to-morrow morning." "No, you won't," said Quin peremptorily; "I am going to get the money myself." "But he wouldn't lend it to you. You don't understand!" "Yes, I do. Will you leave the matter with me until Sunday night, Mr.
"I shall not do anything to this house till he comes back," said Mrs. Phipps. "I expect he would like to have a voice in it. He always used to admire it and say how comfortable it was. Well, well, we never know what is before us." Mr. Smithson repeated the substance of the interview to Mr.
If it is, the joke is on me for not identifying you with the Martha Phipps that Pulcifer writes he can't do business with. Miss Phipps, you own something we want to buy." "I? Somethin' you want to buy?" "Yes. Williams wants to buy it and I am interested with him. Miss Phipps, you own two hundred and fifty shares of the stock of the Wellmouth Development Company, don't you?"
An awful lot of money, isn't it, Mr. Bangs?" Her tone was awe-stricken as she mentioned the amount. Galusha gravely admitted that it was an "awful lot of money." All sums were awful to him; he would have agreed if the Wellmouth Development Company had been capitalized from one thousand to a million. Miss Phipps went on.
While New England was sadly disappointed by this second failure to take Quebec, the French of Canada considered it a providential interposition in their behalf, and the church, which had been first named after the defeat of Phipps, was now dedicated to Notre Dame des Victoires. All this while the French dominion was slowly and surely extending into the great valleys of the West and South.
Wiley has fitted her with! And she is going to be a lady? I should not wonder if she liked it," said Mr. Phipps. "As if ladies were not tomboys too!" said she with wise scorn, half laughing, half pouting. Then with wistfulness: "Will it be so very different? Why should it?
It does much injury to cocoa-nut trees, by biting off the top shoots, or tearing down the fruit. Captain Phipps' Voyage to the North Pole. L'Acadie. Ruxton. Badgers belong to the same division of Carnivora as Bears, but differ from them, not only in size, but in dentition. This, while they claim a sort of miniature relationship, forms them into a separate genus.
Phipps took the costly bundle of cigars that was handed to him, carried them by habit to his nose, said "Thank you, sir," and went off down the stairs, felicitating himself on the ease with which he had won so choice a treasure. The effect of Phipps' signature on Mr. Belcher's mind was a curious illustration of the self-deceptions in which a human heart may indulge.
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