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When all about her spoke a language so different from his own, how could he hope to make himself heard? He knew that her family and her immediate friends Mr. Langhope, the Gaineses, Mrs. Ansell and Mr. Tredegar far from being means of communication, were so many sentinels ready to raise the drawbridge and drop the portcullis at his approach.
Then, as the train was slowing into the South Tredegar station: "If this thing wins out, you'll come in for something bigger than you had with Gordon and Gordon; you can bet on that."
"Besides, what difference would my coming here make? I shall never understand anything about business," she declared. Mr. Tredegar pondered, and once more removed his cigar. "The necessity has never arisen. But now that you find yourself in almost sole control of a large property " Mr. Langhope laughed gently. "Apply yourself, Bessy.
Yes, there was a suspension of active operations at Gordonia, and he believed there had been some hot-headed talk among the miners. But there would be no trouble. Mr. Farley was at present in London negotiating for English capital. When he should return, the capital stock of the company would be increased, and the plant would probably be removed to South Tredegar and enlarged.
We may be able to make pig cheaper than some others, but when it comes to the foundry floor, South Tredegar can choke us off in less'n a week." "Wait," said Tom, still rummaging. "There is one thing we can make and sell." "I'd like tolerable well to know what it is," was the hopeless rejoinder. "You ought to know, better than any one else. It's cast-iron pipe water-pipe.
All know that the Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond, Virginia, is an extensive manufactory of guns of large caliber. Indeed, every city of the South, having a foundery of any size, boasts of furnishing some cannon. Many of these guns were defective and even dangerous. One battery from the Memphis foundery lost three guns in a month by bursting, one of them at the battle of Belmont, November 7th.
Sometimes, when the flag is flying, she has the air of a piece of earthworks, mysteriously floated off into the river. Ordinarily, though, she is rather like a turtle, with a chimney sticking up from her shell. The shell is made of pitch pine and oak, and it is covered with two-inch thick plates of Tredegar iron.
Tredegar he was no more than an underling, without authority to speak in his superior's absence; and the lack of an official warrant, which he could have disregarded in appealing to Mrs. Westmore, made it hard for him to find a good opening in addressing her representative. He saw, too, from Mr.
For a short time previous to and in the battle of Kernstown the battery had eight guns, two of which, made at the Tredegar Works in Richmond, were of very inferior quality and were soon discarded.
And I'm straining every nerve to make this one!" "And the suffering such as today's, for instance is unavoidable?" "Unhappily." "And bound to increase?" "Well as the anæsthetics lose their effect...." There was a tap on the door, and one of the nurses entered to report to Wyant. He went out with her, and Justine was left with Mr. Tredegar. He turned to her thoughtfully.
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