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The raider, as we had already faintly surmised, was none other than the man with the spectacles in the Genovese caffè. His name was Pether N. Congleton Pether; he was of Jewish extraction, and he was stone-blind. He had been much in Africa, and it was in the southern part of that continent that an accident deprived him of his sight.
Stephenson appeared as engineer for only one new line,—the Buxton, Macclesfield, Congleton, and Crewe Railway—a line in which, as a coal-owner, he was personally interested;—and of three branch-lines in connexion with existing companies for which he had long acted as engineer.
Advancing with a portion of his force he dislodged and drove before him the Duke of Kingston and a small party of English horse posted at Congleton, and pursued them some distance along the road towards Newcastle under Tyne.
There'll be enough of those later on Good-night, Captain Congleton. Going to the singing-quadrilles already? What dances am I giving you next week? No! You must have written them down wrong. Five and Seven, I said. If you've made a mistake, I certainly don't intend to suffer for it. You must alter your programme. He. I thought you told me that you had not been going out much this season? She.
“Well,” he said, “it’s quite possible; he might have been too violent to manage.” “Why couldn’t they have said so, then?” “H’m. Not knowing, can’t say. What happened next?” “Next thing was, I asked the doctor what name I should give. He answered in a kind of nervous way, ‘No name; you needn’t give any name. I know Dr Congleton personally.
The completeness and sufficiency of the written Word in all matters of faith, and preeminently in things affecting our Church life and walk the speedy pre-millennial advent of the Lord Jesus." All three of the men just named had made surrender of all that the world had to offer them, Lord Congleton giving the whole of his fortune to missionary work.
The line was twenty-nine miles in length, ten miles on one level from Harecastle to beyond Congleton; then, ascending 114 feet by eleven locks, it proceeded for five miles on a level past Macclesfield, and onward to join the Peak Forest Canal at Marple.
In the dark, outside the hall, they took to kicking, but only one kick reached me, and the attempts to overturn the cab were foiled by the driver, who put his horse at a gallop. Later in the same month Mr. Bradlaugh and I visited Congleton together, having been invited there by Mr. and Mrs. Wolstenholme Elmy. Mr.
Who are those brutes howling in the Old Library? She. They're rehearsing the singing-quadrilles for the Fancy Ball. Can't you hear Mrs. Buzgago's voice? She has a solo. It's quite a new idea. Listen! Mrs. See-saw! Margery Daw! Sold her bed to lie upon straw. Wasn't she a silly slut To sell her bed and lie upon dirt? Captain Congleton, I'm going to alter that to 'flirt. It sounds better. He.
As they entered the room Mr Beveridge whispered, “Will you meet a poor lunatic again?” And the Lady Alicia pressed his arm. On the morning after the dance Dr Congleton summoned Dr Escott to his room. “Escott,” he began, “we must keep a little sharper eye on Mr Beveridge.” “Indeed, sir?” said Escott; “he seems to me harmless enough.” “Nevertheless, he must be watched.
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