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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: MEN OF LETTERS JOHN PENQUARTO A TALE OP LITERARY LIFE IN LONDON (Modelled on the hundred best Authors.) JOHN PENQUARTO looked round his diminutive bed-sitting-room with a feeling of excitement not unmixed with awe. So this was London The new life had begun. With a beating heart he unpacked his bag and set out his simple belongings. First his books, his treasured books; where should he put them? It was comforting to think that, wherever they stood, they would be within reach of his hand as he lay in bed. He placed them on the window-sill and read their titles again reverently: " Half-Hours with our Water-Beetles," "The Fretworker's Companion" and "Strenuous Days in Simla." He owed everything to them. And what an air they gave the room But not such an air as was given by his other treasurethe photograph of Mary, Mary He had only met her once, and that was twenty years ago, at his native Polwollop. He had gone to the big house with a message for Mr. Tre- vena, her ladyship's butler: "Mother's respects, and she has found the other shirt-front and will send it up as soon as it is dry." He had often taken a similar message, for Mrs. Penquarto did the washing for the upper servants at the Hall, but somehow he had known that to-day was going to be different. There, just inside the gates, was Mary. He was only six, but even then he knew that never would he see again anything so beautiful. She was five; but there was something in her manner of holding herself and the imperious tilt of her head which made her seem almost five-and-a-half. "I'm Mary," she said. He wanted to say that he was John, but could not. He stood there tongue-tied. "I love you," she went on. His heart beat tumultuously. He felt suffocated. He longed to say, "So do I," but was afrai...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217641296 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217641296 |
| Weight | 0.50 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.34 In |
| List Price | $15.37 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 148 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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