The Attaché
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217378468
Paperback|9780217378468
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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: ?to be finished and bedeviled, body and soul, to ' a boardin'-school.' CHAPTER III. THE REVOLUTIONARY HERO. The following morning, Mr. Slick, who always made much greater despatch at his meals than any man I ever saw, called for the daily newspaper before I had half-finished my breakfast. Cotton 's ris, said he, a penny a pound, and that's a'most four dollars a bale or so; I'm five thousand dollars richer than I was yesterday mornin.' I knowd this must be the case in course, for I had an account of last year's crop, and I larnt what stock was on hand here, so I spekilated the other day, and bought a considerable passel. I'll put it off to-day on the enemy. Gauli-opilus if here ain't I he Great Western a comin' in; and he threw down the paper with an air of distress, and sat for some time wholly absorbed with some disagreeable subject. After a while he rose and said, Squire, will you take a walk clown to the docks along with me, if you 've done breakfast. I'll introduce you to a person you 've often hrerd tell of, but never saw afore. Father's come.?I never was so mad in all my life.?What on airth shall I do with the old man here but it sarves me right, itall comes of my crackin' and boastin' so, in my letters to sister Sal, of my great doings to London. Dear, dear, how provokin' this is I ain't a critter that's easy scared off, but I swear to man I feel vastly more like scooterin' off than spunkin' up to face him, that's a fact. You know, Squire, I am a man of fashion now; and here he paused for a while and adjusted his shirt collar, and then took a lingering look of admiration at a large diamond ring on his fore-finger, before its light was extinguished by the glove? I'm a man of fashion now; 1 move in first circles; my position in society is about as tall...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217378468 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217378463 |
| Weight | 0.53 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.36 In |
| List Price | $21.89 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 156 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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