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When we reached the wretched room on the ground-floor we found the girl hanging some wet rags on lines that were stretched from wall to wall. 'What is your name? I said. 'Polly Unwin, replied she, turning round with a piece of damp linen in her hand. 'And what are you? 'What am I? 'I mean what do you do for a living? 'What do I do for a living? she said.
"He is holding the line. He says it is important." Daylight shook his head and smiled. "Please tell Mr. Hegan to hang up. I'm done with the office and I don't want to hear anything about anything." A minute later she was back again. "He refuses to hang up. He told me to tell you that Unwin is in the office now, waiting to see you, and Harrison, too. Mr.
J. R. Green, Town Life in England in the Fifteenth Century, 2 vols. ; Charles Gross, The Gild Merchant, 2 vols. ; Lujo Brentano, On the History and Development of Gilds ; George Unwin, The Gilds and Companies of London , particularly the interesting chapter on "The Place of the Gild in the History of Western Europe."
When she had these fully in mind, she looked up into the nurse's face again and repeated, quite calmly, but with immovable decision, the order of an hour before: "We must return at once. You will pack up immediately." Miss Unwin nodded, and began to open the trunks. This, however, was a ruse. She did not intend to take her patient back that night. She was afraid to risk it.
A reader may say by no means in his haste, but after consideration not merely "Where is the slightest sign of insanity in these?" but "How on earth did it happen that the writer of these ever went mad?" even with the assistance of Newton, and Teedon, and, one has to say, Mrs. Unwin.
Though called to the Bar in 1754, he never practised, for he profoundly hated law, while he passionately loved literary pursuits. His friends having provided him with sufficient funds for subsistence, in addition to a small patrimony left by his father, Cowper went to live at Huntingdon, where he formed a deep attachment with the Unwin family, which proved to be a lifelong friendship.
From The Fig and the Idler, an Algerian Legend, and Other Stories, by Alphonse Daudet. London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. “Two truffled turkeys, Garrigou?” “Yes, your reverence, two magnificent turkeys, stuffed with truffles. I should know something about it, for I myself helped to fill them. One would have said their skin would crack as they were roasting, it is that stretched....” “Jesu-Maria!
The vessel may be turned about in situ by opening one of the receiving tubes, according to the side toward which it is desired to turn. This boat is as yet only in an experimental state, and the first trials of her that have recently been made upon the Saône have shown the necessity of certain modifications that the inventors are now at work upon. La Nature. By Professor W.C. UNWIN.
A group of men near Honor were talking of England, tormenting themselves gratuitously by bare imagination of a feast. Captain Unwin of the Sikhs was casually unfolding a plan to elude superfluous creditors, and spend next summer 'at home. His debts were phenomenal; and it was six years since he had sighted the funnel of a steamer. He expatiated yearningly on prospective delights.
Such an accumulation of materials has been poured upon me by a Mr. Marriott, well known among the Methodists, that I shall have to add a fourth, or perhaps, a third part of new matter, besides making many corrections and alterations. I have also got possession of the remaining papers of Mr. Powley, who married Miss Unwin. His widow died last year; and thus they became accessible.
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