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"And the duke will pay you seven or eight pounds a week for six weeks so that it will mean thirty-five or forty pounds," said the Honourable John Ruffin with the same business briskness. Pollyooly smiled another heavenly smile, but the duke sprang to his feet with harried air and cried fiercely: "Oh, hang it all! Draw it mild, Ruffin! Seven or eight pounds a week for a child like that!
What could be lonelier than the position of a woman thirty-five years of age sole possessor of a great stone house, half a dozen barns and out-buildings, herds of cattle, and a farm of five hundred acres? The place was known as "Gunn's," far and wide. It had been a rich and prosperous farm ever since the days of the first Squire Gunn, Hetty's grandfather.
In the evening, the products were found to be one small nugget weighing a quarter of an ounce, and in gold-dust eight pennyweights, ten grains, being worth, at the digging price for gold, about thirty-five shillings.
Had he elected to remain there, with the thirty-five hundred dollars already in the Savings Bank built to that during his years with Freedom Smith he might soon become one of the town's solid men. He did not want to stay. He felt that his call was in another place and that he would go there gladly. He wondered why he did not get on the train and be off.
Major-General W. T. SHERMAN, commanding Military Division of the Mississippi. GENERAL: I have the honor to report the following general summary of the result of the attack of the enemy on this army on the 22d inst. Total loss, killed, wounded, and missing, thirty-five hundred and twenty-one, and ten pieces of artillery.
The ground was strewed for miles with those killed, and the farmhouses and the ground around were filled with wounded. Our force was fifteen thousand; that of the enemy estimated at thirty-five thousand." That account is sufficiently accurate except as to figures. Jeff Davis never could be trusted in such circumstances to give figures with any approach to accuracy.
"It might be the sound of the sea a very long way off, just as one can hear it many miles from the coast, on a still night at home. What do you think it is?" "If it is not fancy," Mr. Welch replied, "and I do not think that we should all be deceived, it is an attack upon Gloucester." "But Gloucester is thirty-five miles away," Harold answered. "It is," Mr.
On the following Saturday he put his pedestrian powers to the proof by walking from Edinburgh to Dunglass, when he covered the thirty-five and a half miles in seven hours and fifty minutes, having stopped only twice on the way once in Haddington to buy a biscuit, and once at a wayside watering-trough to take a drink.
He was naturally hopeful, and, in a large city like New York, he felt that there are always chances of obtaining employment, provided he could maintain his position, as he would have been able to do if he had not lost the thirty-five dollars which his fellow boarder had stolen. Now, however, circumstances were materially changed.
"It might be a pleasant life enough, I should think, in this fine old Hall," said Redclyffe; "rather monotonous, however. Would you not like a relaxation of a few days, a pleasure trip, in all these thirty-five years? You old Englishmen are so sturdily faithful to one thing. You do not resemble my countrymen in that."
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