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But for the fact that a selection would have looked invidious, I should have asked you ere this to permit me to bring Mr. Symington to see you." "And will you may I?" asked the culprit eagerly, glancing from one to the other. "That must be as Miss May says," replied the professor, with a kind smile. And Rosamond, ashamed of her unwonted outburst, gave Mr.
"You must admit that, if one must have either, the single ones are decidedly preferable, or at least the young single ones." "Don't try to be funny," said Symington savagely: "you only succeed in being weak.
Symington, one of my professors in divinity, and the beloved Minister in connection with whose congregation I had wrought so long as a City Missionary, and in whose Kirk Session I had for years sat as an Elder, repeatedly urged me to remain at home.
Thyrsis got new light upon the making of reputations, when he looked into the next issue of "Knickerbocker's Weekly". There he found that Murray Symington had devoted no less than three paragraphs to his personality and his book.
Symington meant only to relieve you from an annoying dilemma, and he naturally concluded that this would be impossible should he disclose his real name and position. It seems that he merely allowed your inferences to go uncontradicted, and was, practically, most kind. An introduction between you is now scarcely necessary; but I am glad that you have met.
Patton and Symington, and was in the act of saying that the social problem could not be much longer left unsolved; and then he chanced to turn, and discovered young Macklin, surveying him with elaborate superciliousness, and asking with his British drawl, "Aw I beg pawdon but what do you mean by the social problem?" And Thyrsis, with a quick glance at him, answered, "I mean you."
The same year in which Symington was occupied upon his steam-carriage, William Murdock, the friend and assistant of Watt, constructed his model of a locomotive at the opposite end of the island—at Redruth in Cornwall.
Symington, in 1788, fitted an engine to a large boat, in which he attained the speed of seven miles an hour. The man to whom the credit belongs of introducing steam navigation is undoubtedly Mr Fulton of America.
Symington to his engagement to row Rosamond and himself to the island, but he took with him a large canvas bag and a geological hammer. And how, pray, could any one talk to, or even stand very near, him, when he was pounding off bits of rock for specimens with such energy that fragments flew in all directions?
He called at first with the professor, afterward, at odd times, never in the evening, without him. He persuaded Rosamond to continue her patronage of his boat. Sometimes the professor went, sometimes he did not. Mr. Symington was frequently induced to sing when they were upon the water, and once or twice Rosamond joined her voice to his.
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