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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: CHAPTER VIL THE SECOND MRS. TILLOTSON. Captain Diamond had seen the whole breadth and depth of the situation in a second. Perhaps he blushed a little. Yon mustn't go in he said firmly, and falling back to the door. You are not wanted here. Take my advice, and go home quietly. But I shall go in, said Ross furiously. Do you think Pll put up with this ? What fine trash you teD, you hoary old deceiver, with your cursed lying stories Here, let me in, if they have begun ?here, only let me see that whining Tillotson Let me by, I say, you cursed old canting soft- voiced fellow, that I was a fool to listen to The captain's face grew pink; he cocked his almost shovel-hat in a moment. You be cursed yourself, he said, if it comes to that, you low-minded fellow; you're no gentleman How dare you speak to me, sir, in that way ? Here's my card?Capt?I mean Mr. Ross. Though I am old, I was brought up agentleman, and can teach you breeding. How dare you swear at me, sir ? If you can beat up a friend, send him to me, sir, and I'll give him my opinion of you, and g?give you any gentlemanly satisfaction afterwards. There?there, take it, sir And now, the captain having got his card-case open, held out, with trembling fingers, his card. Ross looked at him with surprise; then gave one of his loud laughs. What d'ye mean by that ? he said. 0, very?very good Who would have known our captain, whose cheeks were growing pinker every moment ? You can laugh at me, can you? he said. By Heavens, sir, Til not wait for your friend You won't get out of it that way, my young spark. I'll have some one with you before the day is out. But I know how it will be. An ungentlemanly fellow, come here to raise a low blackguard disturbance in a church. The ge...

ISBN-13

9780217765886

ISBN-10

0217765882

Weight

0.64 Pounds

Dimensions

9.00 x 6.00 x 0.44 In

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$19.99

Format

Paperback

Pages

192 pages

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Published On

2009-08-01



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