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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: THE LAWYER'S STORY A STOLEN LETTER. I Served my time?never mind in whose office?and I started in business for myself in one of our English country towns?I decline stating which. I hadn't a farthing of capital, and my friends in the neighbourhood were poor and useless enough, with one exception. That exception was Mr. Frank Gatliffe, son of Mr. Gatliffe, member for the county, the richest man and the proudest for many a mile round about our parts. Stop a bit, Mr. Artist you needn't perk up and look knowing. You won't trace any particulars by the name of Gatliffe. I'm not bound to commit myself or anybody else by mentioning names. I have given you the first that came into my head. Well, Mr. Frank was a staunch friend of mine, and ready to recommend me whenevei he got the chance. I had contrived to get him a little timely help?for a consideration, of course?in borrowing money at a fair rate of interest; in fact, I had saved him from the Jews. The money was borrowed while Mr. Frank was at college. He came back from college, and stopped at home a little while, and then there got spread about all our neighbourhood a report that he had fallen in love, as the saying is, with his young sister's governess, and that his mind was made up to marry her. What you're at it again, Mr. Artist You want to know her name, don't you ? What do you think of Smith ? Speaking as a lawyer, I consider report, in a general way, to be a fool and a liar. But in this case report turned out to be something very different. Mr. Frank told me he was really in love, and said upon his honour (an absurd expres- iion which young chaps of his age are always using) he was determined to marry Smith the governess?the sweet darling girl, as In- called her; but I'm not sentimental, and / call her Smith the gov...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217677158 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217677150 |
| Weight | 0.55 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.38 In |
| List Price | $31.17 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 164 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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