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Updated: June 16, 2025
I tried to buy his place before I decided on Hamilton Hill. But he wouldn't sell. He said he wouldn't have any place for his stuffed birds." "Stuffed birds?" "His hobby is the game birds of Virginia. He has a whole room of them. I offered him a good price, but I suppose he'd rather starve than take it." The Judge's box was just above Oscar Waterman's. Becky, looking up, saw Dalton's eyes upon her.
Nor had he seen Captain Barker, who was very much occupied, said Diggle, and had a great deal of trouble in keeping his crew out of the clutches of the press gang. Some of the best of them had been sent to the Waterman's Rest in charge of the chief and second mates. It was at Diggle's suggestion that he had been deputed to convey the captain's message to the men.
I felt certain, the moment my eyes rested upon her, that she must certainly be the subject of my friend the waterman's enthusiastic eulogies. The other lady she who occupied the seat on my right was stout, elderly, grey-haired, and very richly attired in brocade and lace, with a profusion of jewellery about her.
The Government must not help the gamblers, everyone insisted. But now had come the moment when it seemed that the Exchange must be closed. Thousands of firms would be ruined, the business of the country would be paralysed. There came word that the Pittsburg Exchange had closed. So once more the terrified magnates crowded into Waterman's office.
"By Jove, Jefferson nearly did it," said Waterman; "you should see the subterranean passages at Monticello for the servants, so that the guests could look over the grounds without a woolly head in sight." "Great old boob, Jefferson," said Waterman's wife, Flora. "No," Madge's eyes went out over the hills to where Monticello brooded over great memories, "he was not a boob.
"There is only one Price that I know of," was the reply. "And you don't believe that he and Waterman are enemies?" "I mean that Price is simply one of Waterman's agents in every big thing he does." "But, man! Doesn't he own the Mississippi Steel Company?" "He owns it for Waterman," said Bates. "But that is impossible," cried Montague. "Isn't Waterman interested in the Steel Trust?
Having purchased the Waterman's Arms at Bermondsey, with some adjoining waste land, he transformed the place into a tea-garden. Shortly afterwards a chalybeate spring was discovered in the grounds, an event which obliterated the name of the Waterman's Arms in favour of the Bermondsey Spa Gardens.
He said he had no idea of what Dan Waterman had been planning, but I fancy that was a lie. Harrison of Pittsburg had been threatening to build a railroad of his own, and take away his business from Waterman's roads, and so there was nothing for Waterman to do but buy him out at three times what his mills were worth. He took the mills that Stagg had bought at the same time.
"It isn't a beastly hole," he said in a ringing voice, "it's God's country I got my mother on the 'phone, Major. She has sent for us and the horses are on the way." Dalton looked him over. What a lank and shabby youth he was to carry in his voice that ring of authority. "What's the answer to our getting off here?" he asked. "Depends upon where you are going." "To Oscar Waterman's "
"It isn't a beastly hole," he said in a ringing voice, "it's God's country I got my mother on the 'phone, Major. She has sent for us and the horses are on the way." Dalton looked him over. What a lank and shabby youth he was to carry in his voice that ring of authority. "What's the answer to our getting off here?" he asked. "Depends upon where you are going." "To Oscar Waterman's "
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