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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... said I; and if you were, you are welcome So counting the money into her hand, and with a lower bow than one generally makes to a shop-keepers wife, I went out, and her lad with his parcel followed me. HERE was nobody in the box I was X let into but a kindly old French officer. I love the character, not only because I honour the man whose manners are softened by a profession which makes bad men worse; but that I once knew one for he is no more and why should I not rescue one page from violation by writing his name in it, and telling the world it was Captain Tobias Shandy, the dearest of my flock and friends, whose philanthropy I never think of at this long distance from his death but my eyes gush out with tears. For his sake, I have a predilection for the whole corps of veterans; and so I strode over the two back rows of benches, and placed myself beside him. The old officer was reading attentively a small pamphlet, it might be the book of the opera, with a large pair of spectacles. As soon as I sat down, he took his spectacles off, and putting them into a shagreen case, returnd them and the book into his pocket together. I half rose up, and made him a bow. Translate this into any civilized language in the world the sense is this: "Heres a poor stranger come into the box he seems as if he knew nobody; and is never likely, was he to be seven years in Paris, if every man he comes near keeps his spectacles upon his nose t is shutting the door of conversation absolutely in his face and using him worse than a German." The French officer might as well have said it all aloud: and if he had, I should in course have put the bow I made him into French too, and told him, "I was sensible of his attention, and returnd him a...
| ISBN-13 | 9781152138865 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1152138863 |
| Weight | 2.25 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.55 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 704 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2010-01-01 |
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