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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: JACOB SHARP'S . GAME OF SNAPDRAGON. Jacob Shakp was more of a fool at forty than he ought to have been when he married Mrs. Rattery. an officer's widow with one child and no annuity. Jacob was a soft-hearted man, and since five years old had been in love with some divinity or other; but being of a nervous temperament, with the perpetual vision of a large family and t the workhouse before his eyes, he had never dipped more than his foot into the troubled waters of love matrimonial, and then only to draw it back again. He could never make up his mind to take a plunge, and so, at forty, he had a museum of love-letters and locks of hair, but was still without incumbrance. Jacob took the world very easily; he had a right to do so. He had saved money, and was making money, and spent but little upon his own personal enjoyments. His nephews and nieces began to show him great attention and respect, and severalsmall jangles had sprung up amongst them on the subject of the respective expectations and the future disposition of Jacob's property. We almost suspect that some good-natured friend reported one of those mercenary squabbles to the primary cause of the dissension; and it was the conviction how completely he was looked upon as the great nest-egg of the family, which made him resolve to marry. When it became known that uncle Jacob, cousin Jacob, brother Jacob (according to the degree of consanguinity in which he stood to the expectant), was about to take to himself a wife, all petty differences were forgotten, and a general council of war was held in Coram-street, at the house of a mutual friend, when it was determined to forbid the banns, although the meeting was adjourned to consider upon what grounds they should be justified in creating the scandal of such a proceeding, and ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217148863 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217148867 |
| Weight | 0.31 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.21 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 88 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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