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"Your husband died for Virginia, and your boy shall not want while I have a penny in my pocket. I'll send him to college with Bernard, and feel it to be a privilege!" Mrs. Webb bowed again. "A great privilege, ma'am," protested the general, uneasily. Mrs. Webb smiled. "The greatest privilege of my life, ma'am!" cried the general, his face flushing and his eyes growing round with agitation.
"I never blackguarded you none." "It's a title," explained Baldy, "up among the picture-cards; but it don't take no tricks. I'll tell you, Webb. It's a brand they're got for certain animals in Europe. Say that you or me or one of them Dutch dukes marries in a royal family. Well, by and by our wife gets to be queen. Are we king? Not in a million years.
Mr Falconer had gallantly carried the prize, got the Spaniards under hatches, and taken her in tow, when, on passing the batteries, Webb's pistol went off. This drew the attention of the garrison to the boat, and they immediately opened a hot fire. Webb was the first struck, and soon afterwards several of the other men were hit.
Mr. Robert Webb was the first Chairman of the Board of Directors; Mr. Thomas Bolton, merchant, of New Street, was one of the most active members. Mr. Samuel Beale, after a time, joined the board, and was very energetic. He soon formed a friendship for the manager which only terminated with life. Mr.
"I hate to bother her if she ain't up an' about" Miss Wartrace had the air of a maiden lady who had as soon chat with a bachelor as feast upon any sort of gossip "but I'm makin' me a new lawn waist, Mr. John, an' I want to ask Dolly if she'd put big or little buttons on. She has such good taste an' knows what the style is." "By all means git the right sort, Miss Sally-Lou," Webb jested.
Webb, who himself frankly recognises that the monopolists of business ability are industrially more efficient than the great mass of their fellows, and that man for man they produce incomparably more wealth, endeavours, by means of the arguments which we have been just considering, to show that though they produce it they have no moral right to keep it.
Behind the house Webb was preparing to mount, when a light hand fell on his shoulder. "You will be careful?" said Amy, appealingly. "You don't seem to spare yourself in anything. I dread to have you go up into those darkening mountains." "Why, Amy," he replied, laughing, "one would think I was going to fight Indians, and you feared for my scalp."
And then, little by little, it transpired that Hay, the post trader whom the general had need to see, had taken his departure by way of the Rawlins road, and without so much as a whisper of his purpose to any one. "I knew he had thought of going. He told Major Webb so," said Dade, presently. "But that was before the outbreak assumed proportions.
Chester Downes, I could be almost tempted to believe that I had injured that gentleman in my thoughts." "You have, Clinton! you have!" she cried. "I don't doubt you believe so mother," I said, quietly. "But how about father? What was his opinion of Aunt Alice's husband?" "Why you see, Clinton," she returned slowly and doubtfully, "Doctor Webb was not very well acquainted with Chester." "No?"
Watt's favorite employment in Soho works late in 1783 and early in 1784 was to teach his engine, now become as docile as it was powerful, to work a tilt hammer. In 1777 he had written Boulton that Wilkinson wants an engine to raise a stamp of 15 cwt. thirty or forty times in a minute. I have set Webb to work to try it with the little engine and a stamp-hammer of 60 lbs. weight.
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