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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: when I left it I was no longer free. A few hours ago, the name, or even the thought, of Mabel Cardinall would have been enough to make me rave for ten minutes?in the usual way of lovers, as novelists used sardonically to remark; but now?well, even yet, I feel that it would not take much to make me do so. But, somehow, she does not seem the same to me, and the worst of it is that I cannot justify the change to myself. I only know that it is there, and I know also the cause of it; but that cause is so trivial that to anyone but a man of sensitive feelings it may seem no cause at all. This afternoon, then, having nothing better to do, I strolled along to the Unicorn Club, and after looking into the papers, passed into the smoking-room. There I found an old college friend, Sir George Gurdon, whom I had not seen for months, and I stood talking to him for several minutes. It was very seldom that Sir George honoured the Unicorn, or London for that matter, with his presence, for, when he was not shooting in the Highlands or fishing in Norway, he was usually a few thousand miles off in his yacht. Accordingly, I asked him with some curiosity the reason of his visit at this time of the year. ' Oh ' he replied, ' I'm only passing through on my way to the North. Fact is, I was cruising about in the Levant when I got a letter from the mater asking me when I intended to settle down, and telling me that she was staying near a girl I used to be sweet on. So I thought I might humour her for a month or two, and, giving my captain orders to bring the boat round to Southampton, I came home overland. Leave here by the 6.50 train?and, by Jove it's six already ' I wished him success in his new venture, thinking that a handsome fellow like Gurdon, with a rent-roll of 15,000., would have no diff..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217728829 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217728820 |
| Weight | 1.26 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.87 In |
| List Price | $32.56 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 390 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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