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A bill being formed on these resolutions, was sent up to the house of lords, where it met with some opposition from the marquis of Normanby; a protest was likewise entered against it by the earls of Huntingdon and Plymouth, and the lords Guilford and Jeffries.
"'Lots 1 to 56 in Block 10, Guilford & Hawk's Addition," said Kent, reading from a memorandum in his note-book. "It lies beautifully, doesn't it?" "Yes; for a chicken farm," chuckled the assessor. "Well, give me your candid opinion, you two: what is the property worth?" The Building and Loan man scratched his chin. "Say fifty dollars for the plot if you'll fence it." "No, put it up.
It caused rapid and great fluctuations in all markets. It lured men everywhere into speculation. It dangerously expanded credits and prompted men to undertake enterprises far beyond their means. Very early in his career as a banker, Guilford Duncan discovered that half the merchants in Cairo were young men of little capital and small capacity, who ought to have remained salaried clerks.
I shall make an honest report in this matter. Good-night, sir! Perhaps you will make my excuses to the ladies for not joining them at supper as I promised to do. As for the rest, you may explain to them that I am not such a scoundrel as you hoped I might be." And with that Guilford Duncan stalked out of the house, helping himself to his hat as he passed the rack in the entry way.
That night he had considerable difficulty in falling asleep, but did finally succeed in doing so; and when he awoke the steamer was going up the river, whose waters seemed like an old friend, because they had flowed right down past Guilford on their way to the sea.
He says you are to become one of our 'great men of affairs, and that he means to have you 'with him' in all his undertakings for the development of our splendid western country." When the voluble woman ceased, Guilford Duncan wondered whence she had got her speech. "Tandy could never have composed it," he was sure. "She must have done it herself.
Whenever he thought of this home, of the Uncle Daniel who had in charity cared for him a motherless, fatherless boy and of returning to it, with not even as much right as the Prodigal Son, of whom he had heard Uncle Daniel tell, his heart sank within him and he doubted whether he would be allowed to remain even if he should be so fortunate as ever to reach Guilford again.
It's a plot of some kind, and Callahan knows what he is about. He had me held up with a hammer till just a few minutes ago, and he's running past stop-signals and over red lights like a madman!" Bucks and Guilford exchanged convictions by the road of the eye, and the governor said: "This is pretty serious, Major. Have you anything to suggest?"
The British army that had just left Portsmouth, was now on its way to Yorktown, whither Cornwallis, after his fruitless chase of Greene, his disastrous victory at Guilford Courthouse, and his retreat to Wilmington, was now directing his army. There on the 19th of October the famous Battle of Yorktown was fought and Cornwallis and his entire army forced to surrender.
At Hillsborough, in the northwest corner of North Carolina, Cornwallis issued a proclamation saying that the colony was once more under the authority of the King and inviting the Loyalists, bullied and oppressed during nearly six years, to come out openly on the royal side. On the 15th of March Greene took a stand and offered battle at Guilford Court House.
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