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He was a very clever fellow, this young Thornberry, a natural orator, and was leader of the High Church party in the Oxford Union.
"We are teetotallers," said Thornberry; "but we can give you a good cup of coffee." "I am a teetotaller too at this time of the day," said Endymion; "but a good cup of coffee is, they say, the most delicious and the rarest beverage in the world." "Well," continued Thornberry; "it is a long time since we met, Mr. Ferrars ten years.
His works are a mile out of town; but it seems only a step, for there are houses all the way. Job Thornberry & Co.'s Print-works, Pendleton Road any one can guide you and when you get there, you can ask for me, if you like. I am his overlooker, and my name is ENOCH CRAGGS."
Job Thornberry took his seat below the gangway, on the opposition side, and on the floor of the House. Mr. Bertie Tremaine had sent his brother, Mr.
The next afternoon the division superintendent found himself awaited at his office door by Pop Thornberry, who was very dusty and who carried a basket heavy with clods of clay and mica. He had been out to the arid field that morning. "H-sh!" whispered Pop. "Doan' say a word, Mistah Monroe!
"Then it would rather seem that they have no capital now to spare to purchase our goods?" "Not so," said Thornberry sharply, "as I have shown; but were it so, it does not affect my principle.
"Well, I confess," said Endymion, "I have for some time thought the principle of free exchange was a sound one; but its application in a country like this would be very difficult, and require, I should think, great prudence and moderation." "By prudence and moderation you mean ignorance and timidity," said Thornberry scornfully.
"Say Pop, where do you get this gold, anyhow?" asked a tobacco-chewing gamin at the railroad station one day. "Dat's my business," replied Thornberry, with some dignity. "Oh," said his questioner, "I know. Tobe McStenger followed you out the other day and saw where you got it. He'd a brung some in hisself, but it wasn't on his property."
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