Josephine Billings Quotes

To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world

Look, Tad, you're quite sure that you have no idea, even in the back of your mind, where Bill could have been staying?" "I haven't got a back to my mind. I have just a small, narrow space in front where I keep all that's useful to me. A few telephone numbers and a prayer or two.

Bill Maddox reported well of him to the village— "no airs at all and can't be fooled neither; upped with the bonnet and went over her as if he was bred to the trade"—so that by the time he appeared in the Swan with Walter of an evening Salcott St. Mary knew all about him and were prepared to accept him in spite of his reprehensible good looks.

The CleanWeb Hackathon scaled into an international movement, not just because developers like to tinker and gather, but because of the promise of a new business model—making money while helping energy consumers save it. Take, for instance, Simple Energy, based out of Boulder, Colorado, which partnered with San Diego Gas & Electric in its launch of the Green Button service. After using Simple Energy’s Customer Engagement platform to see her family’s energy usage online, Heidi Bates deputized her six-year-old son Thaddeus as the “Light Police,” to run around the house unplugging unnecessary luminescence. “He really digs it,” she said. The enthusiasm spread throughout age ranges; a grandmother, Josephine Gonzales, saved over 20 percent on her electric bills using the Facebook-connected platform.

Well, at any rate, all that part of it was over, though neither of them could possibly believe that father was never coming back. Josephine had had a moment of absolute terror at the cemetery, while the coffin was lowered, to think that she and Constantia had done this thing without asking his permission. What would father say when he found out? For he was bound to find out sooner or later. He always did. “Buried. You two girls had me buried!” She heard his stick thumping. Oh, what would they say? What possible excuse could they make? It sounded such an appallingly heartless thing to do. Such a wicked advantage to take of a person because he happened to be helpless at the moment. The other people seemed to treat it all as a matter of course. They were strangers; they couldn’t be expected to understand that father was the very last person for such a thing to happen to. No, the entire blame for it all would fall on her and Constantia. And the expense, she thought, stepping into the tight-buttoned cab. When she had to show him the bills. What would he say then?