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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 IV. ''Thou art violently carried away from grace; there is a devil haunts thee in the likeness of a fat old man, ?a tun of man is thy companion.?Shakespeabe. The Eeverend Charles Dyceworthy sat alone in the small dining-room of his house at Bosekop, finishing ajate tea, and disposing of round after round of hot buttered toast with that suave alacrity he always displayed in the consumption of succulent eatables. He was a largely made man, very much on the wrong side of fifty, with accumulations of unwholesome fat on every available portion of his body. His round face was cleanly shaven and shiny, as though its flabby surface were frequently polished with some sort of luminous grease instead of the customary soap. His mouth was absurdly small and pursy for so broad a countenance, ?his nose seemed endeavouring to retreat behind his puffy cheeks as though painfully aware of its own insignificance, ?and he had little, sharp, ferret-like eyes of a dull mahogany brown, which were utterly destitute of even the faintest attempt atany actual expression. They were more like glass beads than eyes, and glittered under their scanty fringe of pale-coloured lashes with a sort of shallow cunning which might mean malice or good-humour, ?no one looking at them could precisely determine which. His hair was of an indefinite shade, neither light nor dark, somewhat of the tinge of a dusty potato before it is washed clean. It was neatly brushed and parted in the middle with mathematical precision, while from the back of his head it was brought forward in two projections, one on each side, like budding wings behind his ears. It was impossible for the most fastidious critic to find fault with the Reverend Mr. Dyce- worthy's hands. He had beautiful hands, white, soft, plump and well-shaped, ?his
| ISBN-13 | 9780217138086 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021713808X |
| Weight | 0.52 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.35 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 152 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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