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In his prosperous days Daniel Anthony had built a satinet factory and a grist-mill at Hardscrabble and, although these were mortgaged heavily, he hoped to weather the financial storm and through them to build up again his fallen fortunes.
Major Israel Ryely, his second in command, a native of the rival village of Hardscrabble, was to figure as Lord Cornwallis; and the selection was the more appropriate, since the private relations of these two great men were any thing but amicable, and they espoused opposite sides in politics. Dr.
The small, lean figure; the somewhat seedy broadcloth in which it is enveloped; the well-browned and very sharp features; the straight, dark-gray hair, and the absent manner of Mr. Hardscrabble, might, with the uninitiated, cause him to be mistaken for an "up-country" clergyman of the Methodist denomination. "Mr. Hardscrabble? Mr. Hardscrabble? Mr.
Ronayne, he pursued, returning, after he had gone a few paces, 'do you think, sir, Mrs. Heywood will consent to it? "'My good fellow, I answered, 'recollect that Mrs. Heywood must know nothing about it at least for the present. I will settle all that later. In the mean time, as you have called it HARDSCRABBLE, so let it remain. "And HARDSCRABBLE that scene of blood is called to this hour.
This was to be not only the longest of all telephone lines, strung on ten thousand poles; it was to be a line de luxe, built of glistening red copper, not iron. Its cost was to be seventy thousand dollars, which was an enormous sum in those hardscrabble days. There was much opposition to such extravagance, and much ridicule.
Heywood never can be here again, it would be better nothing should be left to remind them of the bloody doings of yesterday. "'And what other name would you give it? I asked. "'If it was left to me, Mr. Ronayne, replied the corporal; 'I would call it HARDSCRABBLE, on account of the hard struggle the fellows must have had with Mr.
He declares it to be his intention to enclose the manuscript in the hold of the vessel and launch her when half-way to Tewa, in the assured confidence that the winds and waves will waft it to its destination, or to use his own phrase, "that we shall yet be heard of in Hardscrabble."
He makes several motions to go show it to his daughter; but that, Mr. Hardscrabble thinks, is scarce worth while. "I sympathize with you-knowing how frugal you have been through life. A list of your effects-if you have one-will save a deal of trouble. "There's a fortune in them-if the love of things of yore " The old man hesitates, and shakes his head dolefully.
Hardscrabble condescends to say, in a sharp, grating voice; "but I have to obey the demands of my office." Here he commences reading the paper to the trembling old man, who, having adjusted his broad-bowed spectacles, and arrayed them against the spectacles of Mr. Hardscrabble, says he thinks it contains a great many useless recapitulations. Mr.
In March, 1839, the family moved to Hardscrabble, a small village two miles further down the Battenkill. They went on a cold, blustering day, and one may imagine the feelings of Daniel and Lucy Anthony and their older children as they turned away from their big factory, their handsome home and the friends they had learned to love. Mrs.
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