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"Couldn't do better. I know Colorado like a book. In fact, I own some valuable mining property there, up in ahem! Gilpin County. By the way I take it you are a rich man why don't you invest in that way? Perhaps, however, you have it in view?" "No, I haven't thought of it," answered Melville. "The fact is, I am not anxious to become richer, having enough for all my present needs."
Allan Whittredge, strolling up the hill toward the Gilpin place late in the afternoon, became aware of a dejected figure approaching, which presently resolved itself into Katherine Roberts, who paused every few minutes to press her handkerchief to her eyes. "Why, Katherine, what is the trouble?" he asked, when he reached her side. She stood still, not answering, and with her eyes covered.
Bodley, Gilpin, and the rest were in a chronic state of exasperation with the Hollanders, not only because of their perpetual complaints, but because their complaints were perpetually just.
Long before that period he had identified himself with the antislavery cause, and had visited, in the course of his ceaseless labors for the slaves, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington. These brief journeys bounded his travels in this world. In the year 1843 he wrote anxiously to his publisher, Mr. Fields, "I send with this 'The Exiles, a kind of John Gilpin legend. I am in doubt about it.
Bernard Gilpin, the apostle of the north, the first who undertook to preach the Protestant doctrines to the Border dalesmen, was surprised, on entering one of their churches, to see a gauntlet, or mail-glove, hanging above the altar.
It was a puzzle to Morgan that a man like his old friend Mr. Gilpin, who had it in his power to do so much good, should have chosen to do harm instead. As he rose to go, he looked over his shoulder at the old house, closed and deserted since the death of its owner. The site was a beautiful one, commanding a view of valley and hill and the narrow winding river.
Olney, November 9, 1785. I am happy that my poems have pleased you. My volume has afforded me no such pleasure at any time, either while I was writing it or since its publication, as I have derived from yours and my uncle's opinion of it. But, above all, I honour John Gilpin, since it was he who first encouraged you to write. I made him on purpose to laugh at, and he served his purpose well.
The Gilpin house and its contents must now be sold, but summer was not an advantageous season, and the sale had been postponed till early fall in the hope of attracting from a distance lovers of old furniture. Thus the place was left untenanted.
Presently he heard a sort of splitting sound within the office, which he knew was made by the forcing open of the lid of the desk. Very soon afterward the boys came out, in a hurried manner Griff had the lantern and Gilpin the box. "Have you got it!" said Rodolphus. "Yes," said Griff. "Let's see," said Rodolphus. Griff held out the box to Rodolphus.
He had thought that he might some day possess a gold watch, but he was not willing to lay out the necessary sum of money. By dint of actual meanness, he had laid up two hundred dollars, which he now had in the savings-bank in the next village, and he could therefore have bought one if he had chosen; but, like Gilpin, "Though on pleasure bent, he had a frugal mind."
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