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"In Yorkburg, Mrs. Burnham, women are not supposed to take interest in what are conceded to be the affairs of men." Mrs. Pryor was withering in her disapproval, and this time Mrs. Corbin touched Miss Matoaca's foot. "I suppose you allude to the streets of Yorkburg, the schools, and library and some other things.
It was true that Corbin had voluntarily assumed an unrecorded and hitherto unknown responsibility that had never been even suspected, and was virtually self-imposed. But that might have been the usual one unerring blunder of criminal sagacity and forethought. It was equally true that he did not look or act like a mean murderer; but that was nothing.
The urgent and all- important point was to ascertain whether the Government intended to keep this sum entirely shut out from circulation. To get this inside information he succeeded in corruptly winning over to his interests A. R. Corbin, a brother-in-law of President Grant. As the premium on gold constantly rose, these bonds yielded Corbin as much sometimes as $25,000 a week in profits.
She happened to have no engagement for the evening, and, being alone, was glad of even the companionship of a prosy attorney. "Thank you," Mr. Corbin politely returned; "but I have other matters on hand which ought to be attended to." "Surely you do not work evenings as well as during the day?" Mrs. Montague observed, with some surprise.
Corbin," said Colonel Starbottle, with a pained but unmistakable hauteur and a singular elevation of his shirt frill, as if it had become of its own accord erectile, "Mr. Corbin er er is the distant relative of old Major Corbin, of Nashville er one of my oldest political friends. When Mr. Corbin er returns, you can conduct him to me. And, if you please, replenish the glasses."
However, there was no evidence of these reflections in the Colonel's face. Rather he suddenly beamed with an excess of politeness. "Would you er mind, Mr. Corbin, whilst I am going over those letters again, to er step across to my office and er bring me the copy of 'Wood's Digest' that lies on my table? It will save some time."
On February 11, August Corbin, president and receiver of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company, fearing a strike by the miners working in the coal mines operated by that road, settled the strike by restoring to the eighty-five coal-handlers, the original strikers, their former rate of wages. The Knights of Labor felt impelled to accept such a trivial settlement for two reasons.
I don't suppose I ought to mention it but" she took up a piece of paper on the table at her side and examined it carefully "if it could be arranged " She waved the paper in the air. "Now that is as good and wholesome a bunch of women as are on earth! And they aren't stupid, either. Pity so many good people are dull!" Again she examined the paper, reading the names aloud: "Mrs. Corbin, Mrs.
Happily Miss Sally thought more of her present mission than of the past errors of her people. The faster she walked the more vividly she pictured the possible complications of this meeting. She knew the dull, mean nature of her aunt, and the utter hopelessness of all appeal to anything but her selfish cupidity, and saw in this fatuous essay of Corbin only an aggravation of her worst instincts.
Of such bravery, the following quartette of heroines will serve as examples. During the attack on Fort Washington, Mrs. Margaret Corbin, seeing her husband, who was an artillery man, fall, unhesitatingly took his place and heroically performed his duties. Her services were appreciated by the officers of the army, and honorably noticed by Congress.
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