Gale Middleton by the Author of 'Brambletye House'
by Horace Smith
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217218122
Paperback|9780217218122
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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. How much of the future should be let into the present in the progress of the human mind, and ennoble and purify without raising us above the sphere of our usefulness, to qualify us for what we ought to seek without unfitting us for that to which we must submit, are great and difficult problems, which can be but indifferently solved. Sir J. Mackintosh. Sir Matthew's exclamation had been occasioned by the entrance of a snug, trim, and withal a somewhat demure-looking young man; his thick, thatch-like, mud-coloured hair combed straight upon his head; his neckcloth turned down with a finical neatness; his clothes spruce and tidy, without a particle of fashion or elegance; his gait awkward, his manner vulgarly deferential, and his complexion of thatwan, sodden hue, which is almost peculiar to the dwellers in the civic quarters of London. Ha, Caleb Ball cried Sir Matthew, what brings 'ee up here, lad ? thought 'ee never left the counting-house, on foreign post nights, afore eleven or twelve o'clock.' But rarely indeed, Sir Matthew, replied the nephew, nor shall I now be long absent from it; I shall hurry back immediately; but I thought I might venture to run up to Portland Place, and intrude upon you for a few minutes, as I am the bearer of good news. Ha so much the better, so much the better luck's luck now-a-days. But what 'ee keep standing for ? sit down, take glass wine, and then say your say. Doing as he was bid, and drinking respectfully to the health of his uncle and cousin, Caleb put the glass coyly to his lips, and then said? I am very happy to inform you, Sir Matthew, that our missing ship, the Arethusa, from Buenos Ayres, is arrived. Arrived thee dostn't say so, lad Fegs I 'm right glad to hear it, for we were plaguy ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217218122 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217218121 |
| Weight | 1.05 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.73 In |
| List Price | $23.93 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 324 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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