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Updated: June 10, 2025
What better man will speer your price? or think ye that I've groats laid by to buy a puggy or a puss baudrons for my maiden lady?" "I'll work my fingers to the bone, mother; my brother Hugh will not see me want." "Eat bite or sup of his victuals, or mint a Carnegie's working to me again, Nelly, and never see my face more."
God Himself gives nothing 'free' you've got to pay with your very life for each gulp of air you breathe, and rightly too! And if you try to get something out of His creation without paying for it, the bill is presented in due course with compound interest!" "I agree with you," said Helmsley. "But what, then, of the poor rich men? You don't approve of Carnegie's methods of disbursing wealth.
Carnegie's enthusiasm for using his wealth for the benefit of his less fortunate fellows and I think his devotion to his adopted land's welfare has set a striking example for all time. The General Education Board, of which Mr.
She rose above her hapless lot the old Nelly Carnegie, though subdued and chastened, was in a degree restored. "Nanny! Nanny Swinton!" called Nelly from her couch, as she managed to hold up, almost exultingly, the big crowing baby, in its quaintest of mantles and caps, "Staneholme's son's a braw bairn, well worthy Lady Carnegie's coral and bells." "'Deed is he," Nanny assented.
Carnegie's munificent plan has been worked out to the full, are to make, with the noble central edifice in Bryant Park, the greatest free library system of any day, with a princely fortune to back it.
He advanced when she bade him, and received the child from her arms; but with such pause and hesitation that it might have seemed he thought more of his hands again meeting poor Nelly Carnegie's, and of her breath fanning his cheek, than of the precious load she magnanimously intrusted to him. He did look at the infant in his awkward grasp, but it was with a stifled sigh of disappointment.
The visit to the island was productive of excellent results in the way of a better understanding, and my lady made no more opposition to Elizabeth's leaving her and taking up her abode in Mr. Carnegie's house until her marriage.
Carnegie's daughter, and have led an obscure, happy life, without vicissitude to the end of it, and have died leaving no story to tell. But many things had happened at Abbotsmead since the love-match of Geoffry Fairfax and Elizabeth Bulmer. When Geoffry married, his brothers were both single men.
Young Carnegie's work indoors had reduced his physical powers, so climbing was beyond his ability. It was a pivotal point. Had he been able to climb he might have evolved into a construction boss. As it was he stuck to his desk, and eventually owned the line. Thus did he prove Darwin's dictum that we are evolved by our weakness quite as much as through our strength.
"Ye're like him," and Bell examined Kate carefully; "but a' can tell yir mither's dochter, a weel-faured mettlesome lady as wes ever seen; wae 's me, wae 's me for the wars," at the sight of Carnegie's face; "but ye 'll come in to see Marjorie. A 'll mak her ready," and Bell hurried into the cottage. "Marjorie has been blind from her birth.
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