As It Was in the Beginning
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ISBN13: 9780217725217
Paperback|9780217725217
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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: IV When Berwick, Tuesday noon, bade his new friends good-by on the dock at Liverpool, Lord Congreve, whose manner had become wholly genial, suggested that either or both of the Americans might like to run down some week-end to Tilton Abbey. In reply Lawrence explained that he would have no Sundays in England as he must return on the Proconsul the following Saturday. At this Lord Congreve adjusted his monocle and examined Lawrence with obvious bewilderment. '' Er?I beg your pardon?did you say next Saturday? Yes, this coming Saturday. But I thought you said that you had business to attend to in London? persisted the peer. I have, returned Lawrence amiably. But it's nothing so very complicated. Ishall have ample time to finish it up. In fact, I've engaged my present stateroom for the return trip. Lord Congreve stroked his mustache doubtfully. Well, he remarked, you may be able to conclude what you have in hand in time to return to America on Saturday, but from my own experience with English solicitors I should think it very problematical. However? In any case, if you should be detained?or for any reason should change your mind and decide to stay over?just wire that you're coming and turn up any time. Lawrence thanked him profusely. There was no chance of his staying over, he explained, with a suggestion of amusement, since he was absolutely obliged to go back to New York at once. He was supremely grateful, all the same. He had taken a quasi-sentimental leave of Lady Muriel the evening before, on the same deck forward of the smokestacks where they had watched the sunset together. Then came the awful chaos of an English docking with mountains of apparently inextricable trunks, and lost hand bags, and disappearing porters, and tea baskets, and the s...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217725217 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021772521X |
| Weight | 0.23 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.14 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 60 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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