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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: CHAPTER III THE LETTERS In the courtyard of the house Daniel gave his horse to Fermin, telling him not to go to bed but to wait up for further orders. Then, raising the latch of a door opening on the courtyard, he entered a large room lighted by a bronze lamp. Taking the lamp in his hand, he passed into an adjoining room whose walls were almost entirely lined with shelves filled with books; these rooms were the bedroom and study of Daniel Bello. This young man of twenty-five, of medium height, with a well-proportioned figure, warm dark skin, chestnut hair and gray eyes; a broad forehead; a slightly aquiline nose, lips somewhat full, and white and regular teeth, was the only son of Don Antonio Bello, a rich planter of the South, associated in business with the Messrs. Anchorena who, owing to their immense fortune and their family and political relations with Rosas, enjoyed at this period high consideration in the Federal party. Don Antonio Bello, although himself a good Federal, had a profounder affection than that which he entertained for the Federation?his love for his son. His son was his pride, his idol, whom from a boy he had trained for theprofession of letters?to be a doctor, as the good man expressed it. At the period at which he is introduced to the reader Daniel was in the second year of his course of jurisprudence. But for reasons which will appear later he had some months before ceased to attend the University. He lived entirely alone in his house, except on the rare occasions when, as was the case at present, he had guests from the country, friends of his father. Placing the lamp on a writing-table, he sank into an easy chair, and throwing back his head remained absorbed in thought for fully fifteen minutes. Yes, he said, suddenly, rising t...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217164115 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217164110 |
| Weight | 0.96 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.66 In |
| List Price | $20.21 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 294 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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