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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: CHAPTER III TOM ERRICKER Mr. Jackson Stoneman was ? so far as I could make him out, without having had six words with him ? a very clever City-man, yet keeping two sides to his life, as he could well afford to do. At an early age he had come into the chief control of a long-established firm, one of those that venture little, but keep on rolling from age to age the ball of accumulating gold. This globe of all human delight was not at all likely to slip between such legs as his; though the wicked metal will do that sometimes, and roll away down the great hill of despair. He attended very strictly to the main chance of all humanity, the object for which we were born and die. That of course ruled his existence; but the people who met him outside the covert, or rode with him when the scent was hot, declared that he was a most excellent fellow, ready at an answer, intelligent of hounds, skilful of hand and full of pluck, neither showing off nor shirking work, and as courteous to a farmer as to the Lord-Lieutenant. This was high praise for a man of his position. And we found before long that every one confirmed it. He took a large farm off our hands which had long been begging anybody to take it; and though his solicitor was keen enough to grind down the rent to the lowest figure, and insist upon many new conditions, we could not blame his principal for that, and were well aware that landlords nowadays must be grateful to any who will patronise them. In fact, we had no other grievance against him, except that he was rich and we were poor; and I am sure that we were not so narrow-minded as to feel any grudge on thataccount. My mother especially ? as behoved one of the most charitable of women ? found many good excuses for a practice of his, which some might have taken as a proof ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217819084 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217819087 |
| Weight | 1.29 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.89 In |
| List Price | $25.41 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 398 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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