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Fairbairn says the system introduced by his firm was at first strongly condemned by leading engineers, and it was with difficulty that he could overcome the force of their opposition; nor was it until a wheel of thirty tons weight for a pair of engines of 100-horse power each was erected and set to work, that their prognostications of failure entirely ceased.
"Are you badly hurt?" asked Fairbairn. "Not a bit; my shin is a little barked, that's all." "What a bulldog you can be when you like, old man," said Fairbairn, laughing. "I never saw any one go into battle so gamely. Why, the whole glory of the rescue belongs to you." "What bosh! You had to rescue me as well as Wyndham. But I'm thankful he's safe."
"I can tell it from your step. Mr. Fairbairn is going to carry on after all." "No, dear, not so good as that," John Huxford answered, smoothing back her rich brown hair; "but I have an offer of a place in Canada, with good money, and if you think as I do, I shall go out to it, and you can follow with the granny whenever I have made all straight for you at the other side.
"'Well, I don't know now whether it was pure devilry on the part of this woman, or whether she thought that she could turn me against my wife by encouraging her to misbehave. Anyway, she took a house just two streets off and let lodgings to sailors. Fairbairn used to stay there, and Mary would go round to have tea with her sister and him.
"Fairbairn," said Gilks, "I hope you'll let me stay in the boat. I'm sorry I played the fool this morning." "Then you were playing the fool?" demanded Fairbairn, to whom Riddell had just been confiding that perhaps, after all, there had been some fault in the steering to account for it. "Yes," said Gilks, sullenly.
Some of the most celebrated mechanical and civil engineers such as Rennie, Cubitt, and Fairbairn were originally millwrights. All these men were many-handed. They had many sides to their intellect. They were resourceful men. They afford the best illustrations of the result of Free Trade in Ability.
"Against whatever he meets; and I suppose Beauregard will meet him." "Then there will be a battle?" "I hope so." "Why do you hope so, Major Fairbairn?" "It is the shortest way to peace, Miss Randolph. But it is not likely that one battle will do it." "I know it will not if the North succeed," I said; "but how if the Southern army should get the better?"
Riddell's motion being seconded and carried, Mr Isaacs, a pallid unintelligent- looking Limpet, rose and advanced to the chair at the end of the table usually occupied by the Chairman of Committees, and, knocking with a hammer once or twice, demanded silence. This being secured, he called out, "Mr Fairbairn!" and sat down. Fairbairn's speech was brief and to the point.
It was no wonder accordingly that hope ran high in both Fairbairn and Hillyard as they read through this letter; although, upon the face of it, it was nothing but a sentimental effusion from a sister to a brother. "We have got to clear all this nonsense away first," said Hillyard. Fairbairn took the letter, and placing it on one of the developing dishes, poured over it a liquid from a bottle.
Afterwards describing the characteristics of the millwright of that time, Mr. Fairbairn said "In those days a good millwright was a man of large resources; he was generally well educated, and could draw out his own designs and work at the lathe; he had a knowledge of mill machinery, pumps, and cranes, and could turn his hand to the bench or the forge with equal adroitness and facility.
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