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I can hardly see. I'm bilious." Mr. Fellingham counselled his lying down for an hour, and he went grumbling, complaining of Mart Tinman's incredulity about the towering beauty of a place in Australia called Gippsland. Annette confided to Mr.
The fair or mart usually kept in this place had been over some time; however, we found that there were three or four junks in the river, and two Japanners, I mean ships from Japan, with goods which they had bought in China, and were not gone away, having Japanese merchants on shore.
"Excuse me, but you don't happen to have such a thing as a toad on you, have you?" "I hope not." "That's a pity," I said thoughtfully. "Sorry to disappoint you," she said. "Have you lost yours?" "It's all right," said I. "Toads are with us. They simply hate bees. I'm going to get a pack of toads and hunt them. I shall advertise in the Exchange and Mart tomorrow. How's the ankle?"
Lean and aguish, she looked like poverty personified, half clothed, half fed, and dwelling in a desert, while a tide of wealth was sweeping by her door. Two or three miles farther would bring us to a lock, where the slight impediment to navigation had created a little mart of trade.
I must not omit to inform my readers that during the time I was at Bence Island, which was the great mart for slave dealing, forty of those unfortunate beings arrived, most of them half famished.
Yet even as she spoke that last ungracious sentence, she turned a little, so that a slant beam of sunshine one of the few that ever found its way into this dreary room laid a streak of light just across her hair, yellowing it until it was almost the shade that he had noted in the lady at the Mission; and he thought of her again, and wondered curiously whether, if Mart were dressed in the shining black dress, and fur wraps and feather-decked bonnet that the lady had worn, she would really resemble her.
Newton, Mart having gone back to the front door. "I've heard that actors are often hungry." "But he's General Washington, too, isn't he?" demanded Bunny, following Mart. "Yes, he pretends to be all sorts of famous people on the stage," kindly explained Mart to Bunny. "You'll like him, he can do lots of tricks." "Can he jiggle I mean juggle?" "Yes, but not as good as the other man in the play."
Seaton cut off a bit of metal with his knife, hammered it into a small piece of copper, and threw the copper into the power-chamber, out of contact with the plating. As the metal received the current the vessel started slightly. "It is X! Mart, we've got enough of this stuff to supply three worlds!"
Clovis had the presence of mind to maintain a composed exterior; privately he was calculating how long it would take to procure a box of fancy mice through the agency of the EXCHANGE AND MART as a species of hush-money. Even in a delicate situation like the present, Agnes Resker could not endure to remain too long in the background. "Why did I ever come down here?" she asked dramatically.
As to the notion of there arising any rival ports, south, to compete with New York, it strikes us as a chimera. New Orleans will always maintain a qualified competition with every place not washed by the waters of the great valley; but New Orleans is nothing but a local port, after all of great wealth and importance, beyond a doubt, but not the mart of America.
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