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Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all. Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar. November 27. To-day we reached Gisborne, and anchored in a big bay; there was a heavy sea on, so we remained on board.
And yet he was sorry for her, especially as her rich uncle's cook was the goddess of the gentleman whose god had just been denounced in scriptural terms by the client, a Mrs. Gisborne. She was sad, as well she might be, for she was a struggler, with a large family, and great expectations from the polytheistic uncle who adored his cook and one of his nobler organs.
On the other hand he seems to have delighted in the toys of science, playing with a solar microscope, and mixing strangest compounds in his crucibles, without taking the trouble to study any of its branches systematically. In his later years he abandoned these pursuits. But a charming reminiscence of them occurs in that most delightful of his familiar poems, the "Letter to Maria Gisborne."
Gisborne spoke in a kind of sullen penitence: "You should have kept the dog out of my way a little poaching varmint." At this very moment, Mignon stretched out his legs, and stiffened in her arms her lost Mary's dog, who had wandered and sorrowed with her for years. She walked right into Mr. Gisborne's path, and fixed his unwilling, sullen look, with her dark and terrible eye.
Gisborne; 'he does not want to marry her, but she has a hold over him through his 'Passions, not of the heart, said Merton hastily. He dreaded an anatomical reference. 'He is afraid of losing her. He and his cronies give each other dinners, jealous of each other they are; and he actually pays the woman two hundred a year. 'And beer money? said Merton.
"But," added Sir Philip Tempest, you may easily hear what particulars you wish to know respecting Mary Fitzgerald from the Englishman himself, if, as I suspect, he is no other than my neighbour and former acquaintance, Mr. Gisborne, of Skipford Hall, in the West Riding.
'It is not quite the kind of case with which we are accustomed to deal, said Merton. 'But you have not answered my question. Are there any weak points in the defence? To Venus she is cold, of Bacchus she is disdainful. 'I never heard of the gentlemen I am sure, sir, but as to her weaknesses, she has the temper of a Here Mrs. Gisborne paused for a comparison.
Dinner came, and went away untouched. Early in the afternoon I walked to the farm-house. I found Mistress Clarke alone, and I was glad and relieved. She was evidently prepared to tell me all I might wish to hear. 'You asked me for Mistress Lucy's true name; it is Gisborne, she began. 'Not Gisborne of Skipford? I exclaimed, breathless with anticipation.
Gisborne, one of the best agricultural writers of England, put the case tersely and well when objecting to the system of circumventing springs he said, "Hit him straight in the eye, is as good a maxim in draining as in pugilism."
Its history begins in 1851 when Tebets, an American, and Gisborne, an English engineer, formed the Electric Telegraph Company of Newfoundland, and laid down twelve miles of cable between Cape Breton and Nova Scotia.
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