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It is such a hive that most of Hammond's friends gave up visiting him after discovering in what place he had secluded himself; but there he stays with his books and his camera, his pubs and his lightermen, Jews, Chinamen, sailors, and dock-labourers.
There remained Major Hammond, collector of the port, two of whose notes the bank held. He and Sherman were not over-friendly; yet Hammond must be asked. Sherman made his way to the customs house briskly, stated his business to the doorkeeper and sat down in an anteroom to await Hammond's pleasure. There he cooled his heels for a considerable period before he was summoned to an inner office.
And now she was told that they were to be married almost immediately, that they were to live in the house where she had been reared, in that familiar land of hills and waters, that they were to roam about the dales and mountains together, they two, as man and wife. The whole thing was wonderful, bewildering, impossible almost. This was on the first morning after Mr. Hammond's arrival.
'I'm afraid you won't see the Scottish hills, shouted Mary, holding on her little cloth hat. She was obliged to shout at the top of her voice, though she was close to Mr. Hammond's elbow, for that shrill screaming wind would have drowned the voice of a stentor. 'Never mind the view, replied Hammond in the same fortissimo, 'but I really wish I hadn't brought you up here.
Maggie nodded affectionately to Priscilla and followed the back of Hammond's head and shoulders with a supercilious, amused smile. Hammond opened the outer drawing-room door. "Where are we going?" asked Priscilla. "Are not the pictures here?" "Some are here, but the best are in the picture gallery here to the left and down these steps. Now, I'm going to introduce you to a new world."
"It was Hammond's big appetite that finished him off, though, acute indigestion. So that is why Pyramid leaves us this item in his list: 'The widow or other survivor of James R. Hammond. Well, I've found them both, Mrs. Hammond and her son Royce. I haven't actually seen either of 'em as yet; but I have located Mrs. Hammond's attorney and had several conferences with him. And what do you think?
They were densely crowded; in some the men were "lying on the floor as thickly as they could be packed." One room with 960 feet of air contained four patients. Dr. Hammond's description of the eighty-three rooms and the condition of the patients in them seems to justify the terms he frequently uses. "Halls very dirty." "Rooms dismal and badly ventilated."
After about three days, finding I had no use for the money obtained on Hammond's check, I took the identical two bags back to the cashier of the Custom-House, and recovered the two acceptances which had been surrendered as described; and Smiley's two notes were afterward paid in their due course, out of the cash received on those identical acceptances.
After about three days, finding I had no use for the money obtained on Hammond's check, I took the identical two bags back to the cashier of the Custom-House, and recovered the two acceptances which had been surrendered as described; and Smiley's two notes were afterward paid in their due course, out of the cash received on those identical acceptances.
There are several excellent works on cotton and the cotton trade, chief among which are M.B. Hammond's The Cotton Industry and C.W. Burkett and C.H. Poe's Cotton, its Cultivation, Marketing, Manufacture, and the Problems of the Cotton World . D.A. Tompkins, in Cotton and Cotton Oil , gives valuable material but is rather discursive.
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