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"Who might that young feller be?" asked the engineer, glowering with sudden curiosity, after his long silence, into the face of the grizzled old prospector, who, in the interim, had sat quietly. "Him? That's Dick Townsend, half-owner in the mine," Bill replied. "Half owner? Cookin' for me? Why don't you do it?
All were in vain until the peaceful armada, under the flag of thirty-one stars, led by Matthew Calbraith Perry, broke the long seclusion of this Thorn-rose of the Pacific, and the unarmed diplomacy of Townsend Harris, brought Japan into the brotherhood of commercial and Christian nations. Within the isolating walls and the barred gates the story of the seekers after God is a thrilling one.
He had only been gone a few days before word came that he was dead. It then came out that Mr. Blackwell had allowed him to run up a debt of nearly seven hundred pounds for printing. It also came out that Mr. Townsend was insolvent. He had been in difficulties for years, and he had used the money he had received for my books to prevent his creditors from making him a bankrupt.
The great landmarks were clearly visible, Idzu, with its mountains and port of Shimoda, where Townsend Harris had won the diplomatic victory which opened Japan to foreign residence and commerce; white-hooded Fuji San, looking as chaste and pure as a nun, with her first dress of summer snow; Vries Island, with its column of gray smoke.
She was hurt with her; she felt a friend had played her false a friend, too, in the position of deepest trust, of grave responsibility. Miss Townsend knew perfectly well what the children were to Edith, and, for all she knew, there was no-one in Edith's life except Bruce; so that it was rather cruel.
I am not theologian enough to know how far this is true, but I suspect that this is just the sort of point upon which Townsend would have been misinformed. It seems almost certain that every conceivable abstract point of view, in pure theology not depending upon examination and observation, must long ago have been discussed exhaustively.
Caste in its religious aspects is something of which we English people have no conception. I remember pleasing Townsend with an illustration of the truth of how English people cannot conceive of great rank without a considerable amount of riches.
Townsend has very different manners." "Yes, he has the best English manner; quite natural, and not afraid to be civil. It is only the best of the English who are quite free from nonsense. Ellery aims at effect, half the time; Townsend has too much sense to do so." "Well, I really wonder," said Jane, "how Mrs. Hilson can endure that Captain Kockney." "The silly little soul knows no better."
Townsend can have had no particular interest in bringing them together." "If she is an exemplary woman, no. But we shall see to what extent she answers your description." "I shall be curious to hear her description of you!" said Mrs. Almond, with a laugh. "And, meanwhile, how is Catherine taking it?" "As she takes everything as a matter of course." "Doesn't she make a noise?
Townsend made no immediate answer, but proceeded to divest himself of his rusty outside coat, and to rub up his stiff, grizzled, bristly, uncombed hair with both his hands, as was his wont when he was not quite satisfied with the state of things. "I suppose he was there?" said Mrs. Townsend. "Oh yes, he was there. He is never away, I take it, when there is any talking to be done." Now Mr.
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