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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.1885 Excerpt: ... 420 THE RABBI'S PRESENT. A Rabbi once, by all admired, Received, of high esteem the sign, From those his goodness thus inspired, A present of a cask of wine. But lo when soon he came to draw, A miracle, in mode as rapid But quite unlike what Cana saw, Had turned his wine to water vapid. The Rabbi never knew the cause, For miracles are things of mystery, Tho' some, like this, have had their laws Explained from facts of private history. His friends, whom love did aptly teach, Wished all to share the gracious task, So planned to bring a bottle each, And pour their wine in one great cask. Now one by chance thought, 'None will know, And with the wine of all my brothers One pint of water well may go;' And so by chance thought all the others.' RAINBOW GOLD. A NOVEL. BY DAVID CHRISTIE MURRAY. BOOK II.--continued. HOW JOB ROUND BEGAN HIS REPENTANCE. CHAPTER IV. The lapse of a quarter of a century had made little or no change in the outward aspects of the Armstrong menage. The legend of the ' Stanhope Press' had been once repainted above the whitecurtained domestic windows, and was now just as sun-faded and blistered as it had used to be, and the name of William Armstrong above the business window was no more shadowy than of old. Castle Barfield High Street generally had developed a taste for plate-glass windows, but the old-fashioned one-and-twenty panes, with the stained-glass announcement of patent medicines in the centre, still fenced the meagre show of stationery, books, and weekly journals. Within doors there were visible signs of decrepitude in the furniture, most of which was rheumatic with old age. The grey little man himself was greyer still and smaller still than he had been, being by this time bowed and shrivelled by many years of troubles, large and smal...
| ISBN-13 | 9781154163360 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1154163369 |
| Weight | 1.39 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.96 In |
| List Price | $32.01 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 430 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-03-01 |
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