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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: XVII. The apparition 272 XVIII. The Jenkins pearls 287 XIX. The'faneral 307 XX. La Baronne Hemerlingue 326 XXI. The sitting 346 XXII. Dramas of Paris 369 XXIII. Memoirs of an office porter?The last leaves . . 385 XXIV. At Bordighera . 393 XXV. The first night of Revolt 406 The Portraits of Alphonse Daudet. Octave Uzannt . 421-430 chapter{{Section 4THE NABOB Doctor Jenkins's Patients Standing on the steps of his little town-house in the Rue de Lisbonne, freshly shaven, with sparkling eyes, and lips parted in easy enjoyment, his long hair slightly gray flowing over a huge coat collar, square shouldered, strong as an oak, the famous Irish doctor, Robert Jenkins, Knight of the Medjfdjieh and of the distinguished order of Charles III of Spain, President and Founder of the Bethlehem Society. Jenkins in a word, the Jenkins of the Jenkins Pills with an arsenical base?that is to say, the fashionable doctor of the year 1864, the busiest man in Paris, was preparing to step into his carriage when a casement opened on the first floor looking over the inner court-yard of the house, and a woman's voice asked timidly: Shall you be home for luncheon, Robert?' Oh, how good and loyal was the smile that suddenly illumined the fine apostle-like head with its air of learning, and in the tender good-morning which his eyes threw up towards the warm, white dressing-gown visible behind the raised curtains; how easy it was to divine one of those conjugal passions, tranquil and sure, which habit re-enforces and with supple and stable bonds binds closer. No, Mrs. Jenkins. He was fond of thus bestowing upon her publicly her title as his lawful wife, as if he found in it an intimate gratification, a sort of acquittal of conscience towards the woman wh...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217804493 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217804497 |
| Weight | 0.81 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.56 In |
| List Price | $10.93 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 246 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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