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It may be supposed that Galt, Brown, and Macdonald made a strong impression at Charlottetown. They spoke respectively on the finance, the general parliament, and the constitutional structure of the proposed federation. These subjects contained the germs of nearly all the difficulties.
I thought I'd sneak up here to the Glen and buy a ticket to Charlottetown and try to get work there. I'm a hustler, let me tell you. There ain't a lazy bone in MY body. So I lit out Thursday morning 'fore Mrs. Wiley was up and walked to the Glen six miles. And when I got to the station I found I'd lost my money. Dunno how dunno where. Anyhow, it was gone. I didn't know what to do.
"Oh, no, madam!" replied Lancy, keeping a straight face by a great effort. "We were on our way to Charlottetown, but the train was delayed by an accident, so we thought we would stay over in Truro and wait for the next boat." "Didn't get hurt by the accident, did you? for this ain't no hospital, no way; only a plain boarding house for respectable people."
The delegates appointed by the government of New Brunswick for the purpose of representing the provinces at Charlottetown in the convention for a union of the Maritime Provinces, were the Hon. Messrs. Tilley, Steeves, Johnson, Chandler and Gray. The first three were members of the government, while Messrs.
He had been invited to the party but had not been expected to come since he had to go to Charlottetown that day and could not be back until late. Yet here he was and he carried a folded paper in his hand. Gertrude Oliver looked at him from her corner and shivered again.
Uncle Alec was going to Charlottetown that day, and I, awakened at daybreak by the sounds in the kitchen beneath us, remembered that I had forgotten to ask him to bring me a certain school-book I wanted. So I hurriedly dressed and hastened down to tell him before he went.
But, oh, I think he will be there when our Canadian soldiers return there will be a shadow army with them the army of the fallen. We will not see them but they will be there!" 1st September 1918 "Mother and I went into Charlottetown yesterday to see the moving picture, "Hearts of the World." I made an awful goose of myself father will never stop teasing me about it for the rest of my life.
You have never had her examined by a doctor qualified to pronounce on her case, have you?" "No, Master, we never took her to anyone. When we first began to fear that she was never going to talk Thomas wanted to take her to Charlottetown and have her looked to. He thought so much of the child and he felt terrible about it. But her mother wouldn't hear of it being done.
She had enjoyed the party herself, after all, for she had foregathered with a Charlottetown acquaintance who, being a stranger and much older than most of the guests, felt himself rather out of it, and had been glad to fall in with this clever girl who could talk of world doings and outside events with the zest and vigour of a man.
When he came from work at the close of day she met him at his threshold in the twilight a strange, fair, starry shape, as elusive and spiritual as a blossom reflected in a pool by moonlight with welcome on her lips and in her eyes. One day, when he was in Charlottetown on business, he had been struck by a picture in the window of a store. It was strangely like the woman of his dream love.
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