Davenport Dunn, with Illustr By 'Phiz'
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217814911
Paperback|9780217814911
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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, A FATHER AND A DAUGHTBB. A Dheabt evening late in October, a cold thin rain falling, and a low wailing wind sighing through the leafless branches of the trees in Merrion-square, made Dublin seem as sad-looking and deserted as need be. The principal inhabitants had not yet returned to their homes for the winter, and the houses wore that melancholy look of vacancy and desertion so strikingly depressing. One sound alone awoke the echoes in that silence: it was a loud knocking at the door of a large and pretentious mansion in the middle of the north side of the square. Two persons had been standing at the door for a considerable time, and by every effort of knocker and bell endeavouring to obtain admittance. One of these was a tall, erect man of about fifty, whose appearance but too plainly indicated that most painful of all struggles between poverty and a certain pretension. White- seamed and threadbare as was his coat, he wore it buttoned to the top with a sort of military smartness, his shabby hat was set on with a kind of jaunty air, and his bushy whiskers, combed and frizzed out with care, seemed a species of protest against being thought as humble as certain details of dress might bespeak him. At his side Stood a young girl, so like him that a mere glance proclaimed her to be his daughter, and although in her appearance also narrow means stood confessed, there was an unmistakable something in her calm, quiet features, and her patient expression, that declared she bore her lot with . noble and high-hearted courage. One trial'more, Bella, and I'll give it up, cried he, angrily, as, seizing the knocker, he shook the strong door with the rapping, while he jingled the bell with equal violence. If they don't come now, it is because they've seen who it is, o...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217814911 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217814913 |
| Weight | 1.10 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.76 In |
| List Price | $23.28 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 340 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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