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Ruthless he might be in appropriating their last ounce of energy, yet he rewarded the successful men with golden partnerships. Nothing delighted Carnegie more than to see the man whom he had lifted from a puddler's furnace develop into a millionaire. Henry Phipps, still living at the age of seventy-eight, was the only one of Carnegie's early associates who remained with him to the end.
See, I was angry at first, and when I am angry I say many sharp things, but I am not angry any more. If it had happened to anyone to break my bottle by mistake, she need no more be frightened to tell me. I would not be angry now!" "Wouldn't you?" queried Pixie eagerly, but instantly her face fell, and she shivered as with dread. "But, oh, Miss Phipps would! She would be angrier than ever!
I am ready to do any thing you know that." "Your wife's friendship with this fellow Wingate has got to be nipped in the bud," Phipps declared. "Yes, but how?" Dredlinton demanded. "Josephine and I aren't anything to one another any more you know that. She goes her own way." "She lives in your house," Phipps said.
Phipps to travel sixteen hours out of the twenty-four just to dance with her was a triumph indeed. It made her think of her old friend Joseph, in the Bret Harte poem, who Swam the Elk's creek and all that, Just to dance with old Folingsbee's daughter, The Lily of Poverty Flat. Not that Eleanor felt in the least humble.
I I I... Oh, take me home! I I I've forgot my rubbers and and I feel's if my hair was comin' off down, I mean but oh, I don't CARE, take me HOME!" Galusha, apparently, heard and saw nothing of this. He blundered straight on to the gate and thence along the road to the Phipps' cottage.
Miss Phipps stared, Mademoiselle gave a sharp exclamation of surprise, and turned impetuously to her Principal. "The 'ot bottle! It is true. I 'ave one every night, but I thought that Ellen that one of the maids " "We have put no hot bottle in your bed, Mademoiselle.
"Why, you dived in. Jolly good one, too. Reminded me of the diving elephants at the Hippodrome." And he swam off. "That kid," said Gorrick, gazing after him, "wants his head smacked." "Badly," agreed Spencer. "Look here! did he shove me in? Did you see him?" "I was doing my dive. But it must have been him. Phipps never rags in the bath."
Cabot laughed once more. "Delighted, Miss Phipps," he assured her. "That is what I have been trying to do for a month or more. But don't worry about old Galusha's going broke. He why, what is it?" "Oh, nothin'. I was thinkin' about what he did and and " "Yes, I know. Isn't it amazing? I have known him all my life, but I'm never sure how he will fly off the handle next.
It must also be considered that Phipps had been delayed by contrary winds and pilots ignorant of the river navigation, which combination of untoward circumstances conspired to compel him to relinquish his design, which under more favouring conditions he might have carried out with success, and conquered the place before it could have been known in Montreal that it was even in danger.
"I understand," he said, fixing Tom Phipps with a stern glance of inquiry, as they started for the mine, "that Silurian species have been found in the limestones hereabouts. Also that others believed to be Cambrian have been discovered. Is this in accordance with your experience?" "I think I understand to what you refer," answered Tom gravely.
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