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In the valleys there were a few hamlets and scattered cottages, and on the uplands an occasional "booth," as the hut of the herdsman was termed; but of more important mansions there were only six, as Merley, Twistleton, Alcancoats, Saxfeld, Ightenhill, and Gawthorpe.
Twistleton, an official Scarcity of silver The Bank of Ireland authorized to issue it The Public Works of 1845-6 brought to a close in August, 1846 The Labour-rate Act Difficulty of getting good Officials The Baronies Issues to them Loans Grants Total Sudden and enormous Increase of Labourers on the Works under the Labour-rate Act How distributed over the Provinces Number of Officials superintending the Public Works Correspondence Number of Letters received at Central Office Progress of the Famine Number employed Number seeking employment who could not get it The Death-roll.
"Were they indeed, though?" "To Harriet Twistleton. You know Harriet Twistleton? An uncommon fine girl, you know. But I wasn't going to be caught like that. I'm very fond of Harriet, in my way, you know; but they don't catch an old bird like me with chaff." "I condole with Miss Twistleton for what she has lost." "I don't know about condoling.
They planted their acre or half acre of potatoes, paid for it by their labour; they had thus raised a bare sufficiency of food; and so their year's operations began and ended. An official of the Irish Poor Law Board, Mr. Twistleton, gave a more elaborate and detailed answer to the Savings' Banks argument.
I had never scorned a woman myself, but Pongo Twistleton once scorned an aunt of his, flatly refusing to meet her son Gerald at Paddington and give him lunch and see him off to school at Waterloo, and he never heard the end of it. Letters were written, he tells me, which had to be seen to be believed.
Twistleton admits, may arise from prosperity; he only wishes to show that such increase is not always a certain sign of it.
Our aim is not high enough; and the result, like every other result, is measured and limited by the purpose we have in view. Our public schools ought to be so good that private schools for instruction in the ordinary branches would disappear. Mr. Everett said, in reply to inquiries made by Mr. Twistleton, "I send my boy to the public school, because I know of none better."
Even after a Pongo Twistleton birthday party, I was capable of grasping simple facts like these. "I follow you, yes. I see the point you are trying to make, certainly. Market ... Snodsbury ... Grammar School ... Board of governors ... Prize-giving.... Quite. But what's it got to do with me?" "You're going to give away the prizes." I goggled. Her words did not appear to make sense.
Melancholy, as I remember Jeeves saying once about Pongo Twistleton when he was trying to knock off smoking, had marked him for her own. Not that I was surprised, of course. In the circs., no doubt, a certain moodiness was only natural. I released the hand, ceased to knead the shoulder, and, producing the old case, offered him a cigarette. He took it dully. "Are you here, Bertie?" he asked.
Colonel MIDDLETON; Major RICHARD NORTON; and four Captains. Colonel EDWARD ROSSITER; Major TWISTLETON; and four Captains. Colonel RICHARD GRAVES; Major ADRIAN SCROOP; and four Captains. Colonel Sir MICHAEL LIVESEY, Bart., of Co. Kent; Major SEDASOUE; and four Captains. Others therefore had to be brought in by Fairfax almost at once. Among these were: 1.
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