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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 III. Tricks had he in him, that gentlemen hare. Good Sir, why do yon start and seem to fear Things that do sound so fair? SHAKESPEARE. If Bland ford found the attendance of Peter not precisely the ministration calculated to inspire the confidence that leads to comfort, or to leave him in the vein to conjure up the crowning zest of bachelors' fare; if, but in day dreams of the past, when the glass shone brighter for the lips that pressed it, and kindling blushes on lovely cheeks grew deeper than the rosy tinted wine;?if these fire side delights were wanting, the aspect of his dormitory was something worse. The bed room, if such it might be termed, was absolutely nothing more than a sort of square box, partitioned off with naked deals from the second flat, or floor of the ware- bouse. The place was originally intended for the office of a book-keeper, and was a sorry hole even for such a purpose. As Peter showed the way, coughing with the cold, and sheltering the light with his hand to guard it from the wind, the wide and indistinct space of the flat, half lost in shadow, and here and there built up from floor to ceiling with goodly sacks, casks, and bales of merchandise, had withal an air of opulence, rude, but substantial; it was the gold of commerce in its native mine ! and Frank thought of the Arabian Tales, and of the riches of Damascus. In the mean whileStill, as he sat fancying figures in the fire, and striving to persuade himself that habit might eventually render the desolate chamber around even something like a home, an annoying irksomeness remained, and he was but too happy to be disturbed from these melancholy musings by the rude rattling of the luggage, as Peter let it down rather roughly at his side, and then ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217103619
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 132
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217103618
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 249 gr


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