Baldwin; or, a Miser's Heir, by an Old Bachelor [Signed G H E ]
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ISBN13: 9780217725279
Paperback|9780217725279
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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: but well-disposed Tyro, to be a good boy, and do so no more. If, on the contrary, you should be induced to smile on what has constituted the amusement of my leisure hours?if, through the approbation and patronage of Anybody, these columns should get into the hands of Everybody, and Somebody should in consequence call for a second edition, Nobody would be so much gratified, as, Your most obedient, Most faithful, And devoted humble servant, G. H. E. BALDWIN. chapter{{Section 4A L D WI N. CHAPTER I. -Who calls so lood f -Things that love night Love not such nights as these; the wrathful skies Callow the very wanderers of the dark, And make them keep their caves; since I was man, Such groans of roaring wind and rain I never Remember to have heard; man's nature cannot carry The affliction nor the force. Shakesieare. -A. FINE frosty morning was succeeding one of the most tempestuous nights which the Englishman's hanging month (as it is termed by our volatile neighbours across the Channel) ever produced, when the in- B 4 habitantshabitants of a small tenement in one of the maritime counties of Great Britain were suddenly aroused from the embraces of Morpheus (a gentleman, by the way, whose name, it is more than probable, not one of the said inhabitants had ever heard of) by a loud and violent knocking, occasioned by the repeated application of the heel of a ploughman's boot-shoe, pretty thickly studded with iron, to the knocker- less portal of the before-mentioned edifice, which its proprietor, a wealthy brewer in a neighbouring town, had most pseudony- mously dignified with the name of inn. Now it had so happened, that a club, composed of many of the surrounding farmers, had met the evening before, to celebrate their weekly orgies, in the room which...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217725279 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217725279 |
| Weight | 0.68 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.47 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 204 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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