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T. Kennard Thomson, born in 1864, is prominent as a bridge builder, designer of pneumatic caissons, etc. His father came from Stranraer in 1834. Hugh Gordon Stott, born in Orkney, in 1866, President of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers , Superintendent of motive power of Manhattan Railway System, etc.
No doubt the crowd had come there to witness the performances of the new phenomenon the abnormal of every kind has a wonderful attraction for us but, on the other hand, the majority wanted to see their own county win. Moreover, Mallinson was giving them a taste of his abnormal powers of hitting, and the batsman appeals to the spectacular, more than the bowler. I ran down hurriedly to meet Stott.
Her thoughts were out on Long Island, at Massapequa. She was thinking of their joy when they heard the news her father, her mother and Stott. She was thinking of the future, bright and glorious with promise again, now that the dark clouds were passing away. She thought of Jefferson and a soft light came into her eyes as she foresaw a happy wifehood shared with him.
For Challis, the man of property, the man of high connections, of intimate associations with the world of science and letters, Crashaw had a feeling of awed respect; but in private he inveighed against the wickedness of Challis, the agnostic, the decadent. When Victor Stott was nearly three months old, the rector met his patron one day on the road between Chilborough and Stoke.
I drew back the curtains and unfastened the shutter, which offered egress to the grounds, then, having rung for Mrs. Stott to remove the supper-tray, I sat down by the fire to await Munro's return, and began musing concerning the hopelessness of my position, the gulf of poverty and prejudice and struggle that lay between Helena and myself.
Rossmore had remained for a moment in the dining-room to admonish Eudoxia, their new and only maid-of-all-work, not to wreck too much of the crockery when she removed the dinner dishes. Suddenly Stott, who was perusing an evening paper, asked: "By the way, where's your daughter? Does she know of this radical change in your affairs?" Judge Rossmore started.
Stott was out West when he first heard of the proceedings against his old friend, and this indignity put upon the only really honest man in public life whom he knew, so incensed him that he was already hurrying back to his aid when the summons reached him. Meantime, a fresh and more serious calamity had overwhelmed Judge Rossmore.
In a voice that was unnaturally calm, he asked: "Why don't you produce them before the Senate?" "It was too late," explained Stott, handing them to the financier. "I received them only two days ago. But if you come forward and declare " Ryder made an effort to control himself. "I'll do nothing of the kind. I refuse to move in the matter. That is final.
They had received word at Massapequa the day before that the steamer had been sighted off Fire Island and that she would be at her pier the next morning at 10 o'clock. Stott arrived at 9.30 and so found no difficulty in securing a front position among the small army of people, who, like himself, had come down to meet friends.
The girl, therefore, began to make her preparations for departure from home by telling her parents that she had accepted an invitation to spend a week or two with an old college chum in New York. That same evening her mother, the judge, and Stott went for a stroll after dinner and left her to take care of the house. They had wanted Shirley to go, too, but she pleaded fatigue.
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