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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 XVI. OUR HUMBLE ACQUAINTANCES - THE SCRATCH OF A PEN - A SCOUT'S INFORMATION ? THE MAJORJS MEDI- TIONS, NOT FANCY FREE. TN the meantime, whilst the higher characters of our drama are fluttering their gaudy hour in the hright sunshine of fashionable life; whilst the General, and Blanche, and Mary, and Mount Helicon, and D'Orville, and Lacquers, and all of that class, are driving, and dining, and dressing, and flirting, and otherwise improving their time, grim Want is eating into the very existence of some amongst our humbler friends, and Vice, too often the handmaid of Penury, is shedding her poison even on the scanty morsel they wrest from the very jaws of danger and detection. Tom Blacke, as we have already seen, has over- leapt the narrow boundary which separates dissipation from crime; and poor Gingham knows too well that opportunity alone is wanting to confer on him a notoriety infamous as that which is boasted of by his more daring associates. He is out now at all hours, chiefly, however, during the night, and obtainssupplies of money for which she cannot account, and about which she has been taught it is better not to question him. He drinks, too, with more circumspection than was his wont, and has dreadful fits of despondency, during which he trembles like a child, and from which nothing seems to arouse him save the prattle of his infant. He is very diligent, too, in making inquiries as to the sailing of divers ships for the United States; and, being a sharp fellow, has acquainted himself thoroughly with the geography of that country, and the amount of capital requisite to enable a man to set up for himself under the star- spangled banner. He has already hinted to his wife that if he could but get hold of a little money, he should certainly emigrate; and b...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780217218887
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 64
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217218881
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 132 gr


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