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To begin with, we now landed at a long wharf projecting from the foot of Sacramento Street instead of by lighter. This wharf was crowded by a miscellaneous mob, collected apparently with no other purpose than to view our arrival.
James's Street" without an exclamation, or at least a feeling of surprise, at it being possible there should ever have been such a thing in St.
Running up for the week-end, three days later, he was relieved to find her decidedly perked-up, and left her again with the easier heart. It was on the day after he went back to Mildenham that she received a letter from Fiorsen, forwarded from Bury Street. He was it said just returning to London; he had not forgotten any look she had ever given him, or any word she had spoken.
It was as though nightfall had descended hours before its ordained time. At the city power house the city electrician turned on the street lights. As the first great fat drops of rain fell, splashing in the dust like veritable clots, citizens scurrying indoors and citizens seeing to flapping awnings and slamming window blinds halted where they were to peer through the murk at the sight of Mr.
To himself, the old gentleman was irrelevantly quoting a line or two of verse: " ... Unmade, unhandled, unmeet Ye pushed them raw to the battle, as ye picked them raw from the street " "Only," added the old gentleman under his breath, "this one hasn't even the training of the streets but with those eyes he'll get somewhere." The porter paused and asked to see Samson's ticket.
Stearns is, to serve the country at a risk, should suffer thus by such disagreement of opinion. Shortly after this Mr. Stearns returned to Boston for a brief visit, and was met in the street by a philanthropic lady, Mrs. E. D. Cheney, who asked: "Where have you been all this time, Mr. Stearns? I supposed you were going to help us organize the colored regiment?
He went away, and I left the coffee-house a moment after him, but when I reached the end of the street, instead of going towards the esplanade, I proceeded quickly towards the sea.
Diana had spent nearly a dozen evenings in Omega Street, and on each of those evenings had happened to meet M. Lenoble. She liked him better on every occasion of these accidental meetings. He was indeed a person whom it was difficult for any one to dislike, and in the thirty-four years of his life had never made an enemy.
At another time there was a great deal of trouble with some of the details of construction of the dynamos, and Edison spent a lot of time at Goerck Street, which had been rapidly equipped with the idea of turning out bi-polar dynamo-electric machines, direct-connected to the engine, the first of which went to Paris and London, while the next were installed in the old Pearl Street station of the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of New York, just south of Fulton Street, on the west side of the street.
Martin's Lane to the Strand, and made me continue East instead. But something did; and finally I turned to come through Bow Street. When I was nearly in front of the magistrate's house, a post-chaise stopped before it, and a fellow got out whom I took to be a Bow Street runner.
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