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Darlington understood his good qualities, and very highly respected him because he had not much that was prepossessing in his external appearance, and was thought to be a little eccentric. Moreover, he was not rich merely holding the place of book-keeper in an insurance office, at a moderate salary.
And he was still pondering it weightily when, in one of the loneliest parts of the solitudes which he was crossing, he turning the corner of a little pine wood, and came face to face with Mallalieu. During the three hours which had elapsed since his departure from Darlington, Stoner had been thinking things over.
Canon Wilton told her there was a house to let in the Precincts. "I'll take it," said Rosamund at once. "Esme Darlington has found me a tenant for No. 5, an old friend of his, or rather two old friends, Sir John and Lady Tenby. Where is it?" He took her to see it.
Next a coach ran on the Stockton and Darlington rail. Next the Liverpool and Manchester line was projected. Oh, then, what bitter opposition to the national benefactors, and the good of man! Awake from the tomb echoes of dead Cant. "The revolving wheels might move the engine on a rail; but what would that avail if they could not move them in the closet, and on a mathematical paper?
Esme Darlington was a great admirer or hers, of course pour le bon motif." "Dion Leith's here." "In Therapia?" "No, in a hideous little hotel in Constantinople." "Why?" "I don't think he knows. His wife has given him up. She was a mother, not a lover, so you can imagine her feelings about the man who killed her child. It seems she was une mere folle.
Miriam arose up quickly, as Burton said this, murmuring "Let me have a few days for reflection," and, ere he could prevent her, glided from the room. Two weeks more went by, and the pressure upon Mrs. Darlington was heavier and heavier.
It was for this work and for this purpose that Henry Darlington came to his mother just at the moment the absence of Miriam and her purpose in leaving had been discovered. The effect of the painful news on the young man has already been described.
Keep your temper," warned Bernard. "I wish to bring a witness; one that has been your companion in crime." The curtain over the alcove was brushed aside, and a man stepped forth, a man with red whiskers and hair, the latter surmounted with a glossy plug hat. Elliston stared like one bereft of sense and life. "Allow me to introduce Professor Darlington Ruggles, Mr.
Darlington went up to the chamber of Mrs. Marion. On the bed lay Willy, his face flushed with fever, and his eyes wearing a glassy lustre. "Do you feel sick, my dear?" asked Mrs. Darlington, as she laid her hand on his burning forehead. "Yes, ma'am," replied the child. "There are you sick?" "My head aches." "Is your throat sore?" "Yes, ma'am." "Very sore?"
On his return from Edinburgh College in the summer of 1823, he had assisted in the survey of the Stockton and Darlington line; and when the Locomotive Engine Works were started in Forth Street, Newcastle, he took an active part in that concern. “The factory,” he says, “was in active operation early in 1824; I left England for Colombia in June of that year, having finished drawing the designs of the Brusselton stationary engines for the Stockton and Darlington Railway before I left.”
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