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No one knew what she might be carrying, or how she would, affect prices. It was, therefore, positively unsafe to keep-many goods is stock. Quick, immediate sales were the rule. And failures were many. Now in these middle fifties the pinch was beginning at last to itself felt. Everybody was a little vague about it all, and nobody had gone so far as to formulate his dissatisfactions or his remedies.
This poised, wise serenity of carriage was well set off by the costume of the early fifties a low collar, above which her neck rose like a flower stem; flowing sleeves; full skirts with many silken petticoats that whispered and rustled; low sandalled shoes, their ties crossed and recrossed around white slender ankles.
Somewhere in the fifties, I should judge, but he might have been sixty by his looks and the weary way he dragged around. When I first knew him he was assistant engineer in the Corrugated buildin' and I used to see him risin' solemn out of the sidewalk on the ash elevator, comin' up from the basement like some sad, flour-sprinkled ghost.
It was very late in the fifties, and Lincoln and Douglas were engaged in animated discussion of the burning questions of the time, when Melvin Jewett journeyed to Bloomington, Illinois, to learn telegraphy. It was then a new, weird business, and his father advised him not to fool with it.
In the early fifties, while the California gold craze was still on, a monthly route was laid out between Sacramento and Salt Lake City . This service was irregular and unreliable; and since the growing population of California demanded a direct overland route, a four year monthly contract was granted to W. F. McGraw, a resident of Maryland. His subsidy from Congress was $13,500.00 a year.
The suddenness, the velocity of this extraordinary act, made an impression on my memory which nothing will ever efface." Such is a plain unvarnished account of the kind of way in which numbers of people were brought up in the 'fifties and 'sixties of the last century.
"HEVERY BODY WON. 'Why shouldn't I? thought pore Fred; and having saved 100 lb., he began a writin for shares using, like an ickonominicle feller as he was, the Clubb paper to a prodigious igstent. All the Railroad directors, his friends, helped him to shares the allottments came tumbling in he took the primmiums by fifties and hundreds a day.
But "reality" is a large term; and, as for form, who cared about it in the fifties? As for improbability as M. Dimnet says she is not more improbable than Balzac. And all these things, the ambiguity, the formlessness and the rest, she was gradually correcting as she advanced.
Like most of the small places which suffered from the ravishings of the Mohammedan destructions of the fifties, it has seen better days. Cottages hang clumsily together on ledges in the mountains, 7,400 feet above the sea, standing in their own vast uncultivated grounds.
When a bachelor in his late fifties tells us how glad he is never to have had a son, we begin to taste sour grapes. I went out about six o'clock, and was thrilled by a shaving of shining new moon in the cold blue winter sky "the sky with its terribly cold clear moon, which none care to watch, is simply heart-breaking," says Kenko.
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