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Men of Invention and Industry

CHAPTER XII
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He also taught in ladies' schools in the city, and did what he could to make a little income.

Our intimacy had increased, and we had arranged to get married.

He was twenty-four, and I was nineteen, when we were happily united.

I was then his pupil for life.
"Professor Phillips saw his first telescope, with the object-glass made out of the thick tumbler bottom, and he was so much pleased with it that my husband made it over to him.

But he also got an order for another, from Mr.Gray, solicitor, more by way of encouragement than because Mr.Gray wanted it, for he was a most kind man.


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