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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...puzzles me. She has excellent reasons for restricting the inquiry, and casting suspicion upon poor Fox. Did I not hear of a brother of hers, a Spanish nobleman I think he was?" "Yes, her twin-brother, the Count de Varcas. She has always been warmly attached to him; but Sir Thomas did not like him much. I think he has been extravagant. Lady Waldron has been doing her utmost to discover him." "I dare say. To be sure she has Advertised largely, of course. Oh dear, oh dear What poor simple creatures we men are, in comparison with women " Mr. Penniloe was silent. He had made a good dinner and taken a glass of old port-wine; and both those proceedings were very rare with him. Like all extremely abstemious men, when getting on in years, he found his brain not strengthened but confused by the unusual supply. The air of London had upon him that effect which it often has at first upon visitors from the country--quick increase of appetite and hearty joy in feeding. "Another thing you told me which confirms my view," resumed the relentless doctor, "the last thing discovered before you came away--but not discovered, mark you, by her ladyship's agents--was that the cart supposed to have been employed had been traced to a smuggler's hidingplace, in a desolate and unfrequented spot, probably in the direction of the coast. Am I right in supposing that?" "Partly so. It would be towards the sea, though certainly not the shortest way." "But the best way probably of getting at the coast, if you wish to avoid towns and villages? That you admit? Then all is plain. Poor Sir Thomas was to be exported. Probably to Spain. That I will not pretend to determine, but I think it most likely. Perhaps to be buried in Catholie soi...
| ISBN-13 | 9780907951063 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0907951066 |
| List Price | $5.95 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 391 pages |
| Publisher | Three Rivers Books |
| Published On | 1983-01-01 |
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