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It owed its proud position, no doubt, to the fact that when the Otis fortunes collapsed there was but one child left to inherit it and to be supported meanwhile. Isabel intended in time to give the house a new façade, and had gloated over such of the Burnham plans as had been reproduced by the city press.
This is the only part of America that has made any appeal to me, and there is no question that if they force through the Burnham plans, this city, with its wonderful natural advantages, will be as beautiful as ancient Athens. Surely you must admit ideality in men that can conceive such an ideal and cling to it, no matter how forlorn the hope." "That's just what I object to.
What the astronomer wants is not merely a transparent atmosphere, but one of such steadiness that the image of a star, as seen in a telescope, may not be disturbed by movements of the air which are invisible to the naked eye. Burnham found that there were forty-two first-class nights during his stay, and only seven which would be classed as low as medium.
And Burnham could remember the big fat man who once a month, in a broad, low buggy, drawn by two swift black horses, would travel hither and thither, stopping at each little house to gather in the deposits of small coins.
Fortunately, the paternal Burnham was an early bird, in the habit of picking up the first stirring mining worm, and a resounding knock brought him half dressed to the street door. He was startled at seeing Father Wynn before him, a trifle flushed and abstracted. "Ah ha! up betimes, I see, and ready.
Not, indeed, as an outward show; Margaret Burnham was very brave, and hid her grief under a calm exterior, but there were times, in the quiet of her own chamber, when loneliness and sorrow came down upon her as a burden too great for her woman's heart to bear.
It was a poser a question which I had dreaded because I had known it to be unanswerable. "He inherits the title," continued Gatton, "and on the death of Lady Burnham Coverly he inherits Friars' Park. There is some clause or entail, or legal hotchpotch whereby the estate and revenue remain hers during her lifetime." "But I understand the estate is mortgaged?" "That I have to confirm, Mr.
Kennedy and I excused ourselves with appropriate remarks of disappointment. From his preoccupied manner it was impossible for me to guess whether Craig had accomplished his purpose or not. "Let us drop in on Dr. Burnham since we are over here," he said when we had reached the street. "I have some questions to ask him." The former physician of Mr.
Wennys was a small fishing village on the Cornish coast, barely a mile away from Mallow Court. "He won't come I'm sure!" asserted Kitty. "Sir Robert Burnham lives quite near there he's Maryon's godfather and they hate each other like poison." "Why?"
Many of the older walls I know are worth going far to see, for they exhibit a rare sense of form and proportion, and are sometimes set in the landscape with a skill that only the Master-Artist himself could exceed. Those old, hard-wrought stone fences of the Burnham Hills and Crewsbury, the best of them, were honestly built, and built to last a thousand years.
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