Chambers's Pocket Miscellany
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217456104
Paperback|9780217456104
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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: TALE OF REAL LIFE. A Little more than thirty years ago, at the time when Britain and the United States of North America had engaged in war, a respectable merchant in Glasgow sustained such pecuniary inconvenience from that event, that he was under the necessity of calling a meeting of his creditors, and declaring his incapacity to meet his engagements. Having always borne a fair character, he met with very lenient treatment from those to whom he stood indebted; and the more so, as the cause of his commercial embarrassments was well known to be one over which he had no control. Besides, there was some hope or chance of ultimate indemnification to all parties. In the meantime, however, Mr Hamilton was subjected to all the ordinary consequences of insolvency. He gave up all he possessed to his creditors, reduced his domestic establishment, and attempted to recommence business on a small scale, with a sum which his creditors were liberal enough to allow him to retain. But being far advanced in years, the evil was in a great measure an irretrievable one to the poor merchant. Happily, the family dependent on Mr Hamilton was a small one. He had been twice married, and his second partner was still living; but she had brought him no children, and his only offspring was a girl whom his first wife had presented him with. Elizabeth Hamilton, or Betsy, as she was almost uniformly called, was about sixteen years of age when her father's misfortunes occurred. An eye uncommonly clear, and of the deepest blue, hair almost of the 'lint-white' of the poet, and curling naturally round her well-shaped and finely-set head, and a figure light and graceful, made her an object of general admiration. Betsy Hamilton, as has been said, had lost her mother, but she had found a recompense for the loss in...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217456104 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217456103 |
| Weight | 0.96 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.66 In |
| List Price | $21.33 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 294 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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