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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...The maids had set a bottle of whiskey and a box of excellent cigars upon a little table in his room, and when it became clear that he might light his lamp with comparative impunity he took off his coat, and, laying his revolver close to his hand, he began to smoke and to review the strange events of a singular day. How greatly the possibilities of this journey had absorbed him he did not understand until a sudden trick of memory sent his hand to the pocket of his discarded coat, and he drew therefrom two letters which had reached him almost at the moment of his departure. Of these, one was from Alice, the other from Philip Rose; and he reflected, as he tore the envelopes, with what affectionate interest he would have opened them upon any other occasion. Just as Alice had written to him in the days of their engagement, so she wrote to him now, without a word of reproach, one question concerning his momentous mission, or the tidings for which she waited with such pathetic expectation: --" THE WARREN, WARGRAVE, "Sunday, May 10th. "Mv DEAREST Bov, --I write to you from The Warren, at Wargrave, which Philip insisted upon my taking according to your wish. You will remember the old place, as we visited it in the Sevingcourts time-just a comfortable old house with as many patches and soft places as a family armchair. Edna Elsen is here with me, and mother comes for the week-end, usually upon a day when that tiresome Oscar finds that he has business in Henley. I have given one or two parties and my friends are very kind to me--of course they (the parties) dont go into the Morning Post now; but I am beginning to think that life is possible even without the social paragraph, and you know how...
| ISBN-13 | 9781154786798 |
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| ISBN-10 | 115478679X |
| Weight | 0.66 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.45 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 198 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2010-03-01 |
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