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He returned to his house in the Rue du Vert Bois, put on a blouse and a workman's cap, and went down into the dark streets. Before the end of the day he had made arrangements with four associations the gas-fitters, the last-makers, the shawl-makers, and the hatters. In this manner he spent the day of the 2d of December. The day of the 3d was occupied in goings and comings "almost useless."
Through the two or three years of his administration the city directory still contained the entry Shepherd, Alex. R. & Co., plumbers and gas-fitters, 910 Pa. Ave. In recent years he had added to his plumbing business that of erecting houses for sale. He had had no experience in the conduct of public business, and, of course, was neither an engineer nor a financier.
I was waited upon by fruit-tree venders, lightning-rod agents, fire underwriters, plumbers, gas-fitters, painters, and an innumerable army of persons having horses, cows, pigs, chickens, shade trees, patent hitching posts, smoke-consumers, Pasteur filters, shrubbery, lawn statuary, fancy poultry, garden utensils, and patent paving to dispose of.
That morning the Countess and I, with five furniture vans, had transported the five great incubators to the platform of the lecture-hall, and had engaged an army of plumbers and gas-fitters to make the steam-heating connections necessary to maintain in the incubators a temperature of 100° Fahrenheit. A heavy green curtain hid the stage from the body of the lecture-hall.
Only they pretend to like being governed by their plumbers and gas-fitters, and I don't." "I hear that Oliver's speeches have been extremely good." "H'm all about the poor," said Lady Niton, releasing her hand from the knitting-needles, and waving it scornfully at the room in which they sat.
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