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Philpot hastened, as soon as he heard the news, to ask her, in the name of common sense and of conscience, what could have induced her to take a step so awful. Her answer, so he informed me afterward, was that I had told her that it was the best thing she could do. I had no recollection of having tendered to her any such momentous advice, and Mr.
Further discussion on this subject was prevented by Sawkins' arrival, nearly a quarter of an hour late. 'Oh, you 'ave come, then, sneered Crass. 'Thought p'raps you'd gorn for a 'oliday. Sawkins muttered something about oversleeping himself, and having hastily put on his apron, he went upstairs with Harlow. 'Now, let's see, Crass said, addressing Philpot.
"Why, wasn't that part of the show-off?" asked Pilbury. "Part of the show-off! No!" exclaimed Philpot. "I thought it was the best part of it all," said Cusack. "So did I. No end of a bust up it was." "You see," said Philpot, solemnly, "what I ought to have done was to dilute the oxygen with a little air first, but you fellows flurried me so I forgot all about it."
Indignant at this state of things, a wealthy and truly patriotic citizen and merchant of London, John Philpot, at his own expense, fitted out a fleet manned by a thousand men, and set sail in person in quest of the pirate.
'Put it outside, growled the landlord, indicating the culprit. The barman instantly vaulted over the counter, and, having opened wide the door leading into the street, he turned to the half-drunken man and, jerking his thumb in the direction of the door, said: 'Are yer goin'? 'I'm goin' to 'ave 'arf a pint along of this genelman first 'Yes. It's all right, said Philpot to the landlord.
'If we care to take the trouble to learn, Owen went on, 'we can know a little of how the universe has grown and changed; but of the beginning we know nothing. 'That's just my opinion, matey, observed Philpot. 'It's just a bloody mystery, and that's all about it.
The practice for the Rockshire match, as well as the play of the newly-started Welchers' club, was for the time completely suspended; and it was evident that until the election was over there was no prospect of seeing the school in its right mind again. The day before the event was a busy and anxious one for the captain. Pilbury, Cusack, and Philpot wanted to get their hair cut.
'The next lecture, said Philpot, addressing the meeting as they all prepared to return to work, 'the next lecture will be postponded till tomorrer at the usual time, when it will be my painful dooty to call upon Mr Owen to give 'is well-known and most hobnoxious address entitled "Work and how to avoid it." Hall them as wants to be henlightened kindly attend.
He then went to Pittsburgh and endeavored to get up a furnace company, but not being successful, he returned, and associated himself with Jonathan Warner and a few others in organizing the Ohio Iron and Mining Company, now known as the Eagle Furnace Company, Messrs. Philpot and Warner owning two-thirds of the entire stock. Mr.
Philpot had been to see them, and she told him that the landlord was threatening to turn them into the street; he would have seized their furniture and sold it if it had been worth the expense of the doing. 'I feel ashamed of meself, Philpot added in confidence to Owen, 'when I think of all the money I chuck away on beer.
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