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Can we imagine an old-world stonemason like Hugh Miller begging coppers from a farmer on whose steading he happened to be employed? The thing is preposterous! But now a strong London artizan will coolly ask for his gratuity just as if he were a mere link-boy!
Florian, being a stonemason, had of course built his hut of stone; he was a fair blacksmith and carpenter, and was well provided with tools; but his principal occupation was whipmaking, from the hides of hippopotami.
It is only by good work that men of letters can justify their right to a place in the world. The father of Thomas Carlyle was a stonemason, whose walls stood true and needed no rebuilding. Carlyle's prayer was, "Let me write my books as he built his houses." From an address before the New York Chamber of Commerce, 1890
Alec laughed; but Andrew said, "Hoot! hoot!" Thomas and Alec walked away together. But scarcely a sentence had been exchanged before the stonemason, with a delicacy of perception of which his rough manner and horny hands gave no indication, felt that a film of separation had come between the youth and himself. Anxious to break through it, he said abruptly, "Hoo's yer immortal pairt, Alec?
I shall take care to overhaul the settlements, and, if possible, I must make up poor Jane's income. The sister, Lady Henry Grey, in her dowager seclusion at Brighton, contented herself with a general moan on the decadence of society, and the levelling up that made such an affair possible. It would be too trying to have to accept this stonemason as one of the family.
It was horrible this living on other people's deaths. Catty couldn't bear it being so different. You could see she thought you were unfaithful not to have kept the piano when Mamma had played on it. Catty's faithfulness was unsurpassable. She had wanted to marry Blenkiron, the stonemason at Morfe, but first she wouldn't because of Mamma and then she wouldn't because of Miss Mary.
He was apprenticed to a stonemason, but gave his leisure to reading and writing imitations of old Scottish ballads, which he contributed to Cromek's Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song, pub. in 1810, and which gained for him the friendship of Scott and Hogg.
This was a wizened creature of about fifty, in rusty black, widow of a stonemason and mother of four children 'four livin', she said with some significance. She added her mite of testimony to that of the 96,000 organized women of the mills, that the workers in her way of life realized how their condition and that of the children would be improved 'if the women 'ad some say in things.
Very handsome, and, as you say, very just; but will you allow me to say that it had better, perhaps, be put in black and white?" The enmity always smouldering between the two men, at this ill-judged interruption almost burst in flame. The stonemason turned upon his offspring, his long upper lip pulled down for all the world like a monkey's.
The stonemason to whom Mr. Dombey gave his order for a tablet in the church, in memory of little Paul, called his attention to the inscription "Beloved and only child," and said, "It should be 'son, I think, sir?" "You are right, of course. Make the correction." And there came a time when it was to Florence, and Florence only, that Mr. Dombey turned.
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