Death-Bed Scenes, and Pastoral Conversations
by William Wood
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ISBN13: 9780217829199
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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 II. JACOB BROCKBOURN.?WARNINGS. 1.?Mrs. Martin, Mrs. Hudson, the Souths, Sfc. One afternoon, upon looking over my newspaper which had just arrived from the neighbouring town, I was surprised to see a circumstantial account of a murder reported to have been committed in my parish; and at first I was strongly inclined to doubt the truth of the whole matter, or at least to feel quite sure, that there was an error in the name. Not that my parish did not abound, like others, with persons who were capable of any wickedness; (which I lamented, but could not remedy by any human counsel hitherto devised;) but, when I took so much pains to be acquainted with all occurrences, and so many persons were always ready to communicate every thing extraordinary, and I myself was never out of the way, it seemed incredible that the news of a transaction, so horrible as a murder, should have travelled to the town, have got into the papers, and then come back to me, before it had reached me by any other channel. Besides, there were Brock- bourns in the parish, and bad ones too; but I had never heard of any Jacob Brockbourn, as the murderer himself was called. Upon the whole, I trusted, that the pain and the disgrace of so heinous a deed were yet at a distance from us. However, I sallied forth to make enquiries, andwas very soon disenchanted of my confidence. The story was too true; but it was supposed, that Jacob was a mistake for Joseph; because there was a Joseph Brockbourn, who had well entitled himself to the imputation of a murderer, by his general habits of drunkenness, and stealing, and other depravities. And such a man as Joseph was very likely to have taken up his abode in such a spot as that which was now mentioned to me as the scene of the murder. Thickly peopled as th...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217829199 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217829198 |
| Weight | 0.76 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.52 In |
| List Price | $25.01 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 230 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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