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Here's a receipted bill from Bar, LeDuc & Co., of Fifth Avenue, for $15,000 three rings, one diamond necklace, a ruby stick- pin, and a set of pearl shirt-studs." "Yes," said I, "but what is there suspicious about that? If the things are paid for " "Precisely," laughed Holmes. "They're paid for. Sir Henry Darlington has enough working capital to buy all the credit he needs with Messrs.
I found amusement in alternately exciting and lulling to sleep the causeless fears of my timorous companion, who tried in vain to induce a Scotchman with whom we dined in Darlington to ride with him, because the landlord informed us "that for as peaceable a gentleman as Mr.
Darlington preferred to get away from if possible, and he was just preparing to "hedge," when, fortunately, they ran into the Dean, and the conversation deviated to a discussion concerning the effect the pursuit of scientific research was likely to have upon religious belief. After supper that evening supper instead of dinner on Sundays was the general rule in Welsley Dion lit his pipe.
Darlington and her two eldest daughters, in order to make up a sum sufficient to pay off the debt contracted during the last few months of the boarding-house experiment. The real loss sustained by the widow in this experiment fell little short of a thousand dollars. "How many scholars have you now?" asked Mrs.
"Not through any word or act of his, designed to communicate a knowledge of the fact," replied Kate, her eyes falling under the earnest look bent upon her by Mr. Darlington. "Has he made you his confidante?" "No, sir. I doubt if the secret has ever passed his lips." Kate's face was beginning to crimson, but she drove back the tell-tale blood with a strong effort of the will.
Sherman did not dare to trust himself far in the interior for any length of time, but was marching to meet the fleet that had left him at Savannah and the troops under Schofield, at Newbern, N.C. This is the reason he turns his course towards the sea coast. Raiding parties, under Kilpatrick, were sent out in the direction of Darlington and Lancaster, burning and plundering at will.
Paraphrased by Johnson in The Vanity of Human Wishes, at the lines beginning: 'Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions and a will resigned. Brocklesby sitting by me. He fell to repeating Juvenal's ninth satire; but I let him see that the province was mine. Piozzi Letters, ii. 274. Johnson, on his way to Scotland, 'changed horses, he wrote, 'at Darlington, where Mr.
Those questions were speedily answered for Mallalieu. He kept his immovable attitude, his immobile expression, while Myler told the story of Stoner's visit to Darlington, and of the revelation which had resulted.
Burton; and the contrast seen in him naturally prepossessed the family in his favour. The first three months' experience in taking boarders was enough to make the heart of Mrs. Darlington sick. All domestic comfort was gone. From early morning until late at night, she toiled harder than any servant in the house; and, with all, had a mind pressed down with care and anxiety.
The same engine continued in good working order in the year 1846, when it headed the railway procession on the opening of the Middlesborough and Redcar Railway, travelling at the rate of about fourteen miles an hour. This engine, the first that travelled upon the first public railway, has recently been placed upon a pedestal in front of the railway station at Darlington.
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