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During 1895 our name had appeared on the contracts of fully ninety per cent. of all the business done on the floor, and in the five years immediately following our failure the entire business did not equal that of any two months in 1895. On December 3lst, I found the volume of business for the year had been less than a million of dollars as compared with nearly fifteen millions in 1895.
I shall, therefore, beg the reader to leave the Confederate forces at bay on the White Oak road the flanking column under Pickett and Johnson falling back on Five Forks and accompany me to the house of the same name, within a mile of the famous carrefour, where, on the night of the 3lst of March, some singular scenes are to be enacted. It was the night fixed for Mohun's marriage.
In dignified words, he strove to turn her from that error with all the weight of a father's authority, which her exalted position as the wife of the Heir Presumptive did not, in his view, weaken or control; but he heard of her death on March 3lst, 1671, in the thirty-fourth year of her age, as the avowed adherent of a Church of which he had all his life been a convinced opponent.
And besides none knew, or ever thought, there was any other river. And I could not forget about it, and was so sorry about it. Only one river. Saturday evening, October 3lst. Donald Blake and Allan Goudy returned from their trip, and sorry to hear the death of Mr. Hubbard.
Thence went and spoke with the Duke of Albemarle about his wound at Newhall, but I find him a heavy dull man, methinks, by his answers to me. 3lst. The Queene after a long and sore sickness is become well again; and the King minds his mistress a little too much, if it pleased God! but I hope all things will go well, and in the Navy particularly, wherein I shall do my duty whatever comes of it.
It had become evident that Mara was either engaged to Bodine or soon would be, and the thought imbittered and hardened his nature. He gave the day to business, and in the evening was rarely absent from Miss Ainsley's side. Mrs. Willoughby had invited a small whist party to meet at her house on the evening of the 3lst, and Clancy of course was among the number.
Thomas White, Masters of the Grammar School, Dumfries whose memories are still green on the banks of the Nith. CXCIX. To MRS. DUNLOP. DUMFRIES, 3lst January 1796. These many months you have been two packets in my debt what sin of ignorance I have committed against so highly valued a friend I am utterly at a loss to guess. Alas!
Grub not so heavy as it was. Were starting to dry blankets at fire when rain started. All crawled into tent. Need rain to raise river. No fish but 6-7 inch trout. Bully camp to-night. Friday, July 3lst. Temp. 6 A.M. 56 degrees. Rain all day. Two rivers puzzled us. Came together just above our camp. One comes over a fall from the south side; other rough, comes from northwest.
It was utterly unfavourable, declining to assent to the Bills or anything else except after a complete and deliberate Treaty, and assigning the Protest of the Scottish Commissioners as a sufficient reason for this had there been no other. With this Answer the English Commissioners returned to London, and it was read in both Houses on the 3lst. The effects were extraordinary.
The steamer arrived at New York on the afternoon of the 29th; the 30th was a holiday, and we had to make our delivery before two o'clock on the 3lst. Meanwhile the stuff must be taken out of steamer, weighed up and carted to store, warehouse receipts and weighers' returns delivered at the office and invoices made out, all of which took much time.
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