Chambers's Papers for the People
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781154266238
Paperback|9781154266238
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1856 Excerpt: ... THE BLACK POCKET-BOOK. A TALE. o you Pay or PeePmg?' & a baker's boy with a tray on his shoulder to a young man in a drab-coloured greatcoat, and with a cockade in his hat, who, on a cold December's night, was standing with his face close to the parlour-window of a mean house, in a suburb of one of our largest seaport towns in the south of England. Tracy Walkingham, which was the name of the peeper, might have answered that he paid dear enough; for in proportion as he indulged himself with these surreptitious glances, he found his heart stealing away from him, till he literally had not a corner of it left that he could fairly call his own. Tracy was a soldier; but being in the service of one of his officers, named D'Arcy, was relieved from wearing his uniform. At-sixteen years of age he had run away from a harsh schoolmaster, and enlisted in an infantry regiment; and about three weeks previous to the period at which our story opens, being sent on an early errand to his master's laundress, his attention had been arrested by a young girl, who, coming hastily out of an apothecary's shop with a phial in her hand, was rushing across the street, unmindful of the London coach and its four horses, which were close upon her, and by which she would assuredly have been knocked down, had not Tracy seized her by the arm and snatched her from the danger. 'You'll be killed if you don't look sharper, ' said he carelessly; but as he spoke, she turned her face towards him. 'I hope my roughness has not hurt you?' he continued in a very different tone: 'I'm afraid I griped your arm too liard?' 'I'm very much obliged to you, ' she said; 'you did not hurt me at all. Thank you, ' she added, looking back to him as she opened the door of the opposite house with a key which she held in...
| ISBN-13 | 9781154266238 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1154266230 |
| Weight | 1.55 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.07 In |
| List Price | $35.91 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 482 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-03-01 |
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