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By the way," he went on, as Blaney started to walk away, "when will you be able to talk over that business with me?" "Why, now as well as at any time, I suppose," said Blaney, after a moment's hesitation. The contractor had an office near by, and at his suggestion they went there for their conference. "How many men can you count?" he asked when they were seated.
Then there was the "Big Pipe" contractor a lean man with half-moon whiskers, a red, weather-beaten, knotted face, bushy gray eyebrows, and a clean-shaven mouth that looked when shut like a healed scar. On Sunday this magnate wore a yellow diamond pin and sat in his shirt-sleeves.
In any case he should have returned to California: he was surprised at her doubts. She was not to bother further about his affairs out there. He had telegraphed to the contractor that he could wait as long as the strikers. He added that he longed for California.
This refractory, capricious, and independent spirit, and the inexplicable wild shyness of the woman for whom the Baron had four times found a match an employe in his office, a retired major, an army contractor, and a half-pay captain while she had refused an army lacemaker, who had since made his fortune, had won her the name of the Nanny Goat, which the Baron gave her in jest.
If it takes Strong Will, Mature Character, and Determined Purpose to live effectively, it takes all of that and more humor and patience to build a house in America, unless one can afford to order his habitation as he does a suit of clothes and spend the season in Europe until the contractor and the architect have fought it out between them. But Bessie was a young woman of visions.
I once heard a man ask an architect if it would not answer to give his plan to the contractor and let him work it out without the architect's supervision. "My dear sir," the architect replied, "you wouldn't know the corpse." I suppose one reason why even the miscopying of gardens provokes so little offence is that the acts it mimics have no art it can murder. Mrs. Whereupon Mrs.
James X. Young, a contractor, had the following dealings with the Treasury Department: He furnished January 4, 1882, 14 tables at $16 each; June 6, 1882, 180 desks at $18.50 each; December 7, 1882, 150 chairs at $2 each, and July 18, 1883, 14 book-cases at $90 each.
At this period Blennerhassett was at war with both Colonel Burr and Alston, on the subject of their pecuniary transactions. Former mercantile partner of Blennerhassett, and contractor for building Burr's boats on the Muskingum. On the 7th of June, 1808, Colonel Burr sailed from New-York on board the British packet for England, via Halifax.
And then, there's so many poor in the legislature to be looked after," said the contractor with a sort of a chuckle, "isn't that so, Mr. Bolton?" Eli Bolton replied that he never had much to do with the legislature. "Yes," continued this public benefactor, "an uncommon poor lot this year, uncommon. Consequently an expensive lot. The fact is, Mr.
It was very well known to him also, that Sir Roger, in all his bodily ailments, had hitherto been contented to entrust his safety to the skill of his old friend. Sir Roger was in his way a great man, and much talked of in Barchester, and rumour had already reached the ears of the Barchester Galen, that the great railway contractor was ill.
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