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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. WHICH ENDS THE BEGINNING AND GOES AHEAD. I PACKED up, and then went to the Royal Mail Office and asked for a ticket. I said, First return to Monte Video, please, in as near a tone as I could command to that in which I should have said, First return to Sloane Square, at the Underground at Victoria, as if Monte Video was the sort of place I went to every week. But the clerk didn't seem half enough impressed. He replied, Yes, in very much the same way as a clerk at the said station would have done, handed me the ticket, banged down the change, and the thing was done. Then the only thing left to be done was to take a hasty farewell of all my relations. This was a vast undertaking, as my family is a large one, but I got through it in something under a week, at the end of which time I found myself loaded with an accumulation of last things that had been given me by various people as sure to prove useful, and of which, after vain endeavours to cram them all into the minimum of luggage I intended to take, I hid away the whole somewhere at home, so as toshow preference to no one in particular, trusting to fortune that when I returned I should not be questioned as to how far this or that thing had proved serviceable. And at last the day came. The household rose at an unprecedented hour, breakfast was held early, my things were put into the cab, and I had said good-bye to all. It is on these occasions that one begins to be sad, and to feel how much one is going away from; one is almost tempted to throw the whole thing up, and not go at all. But we all did our best to be as cheerful as possible under the circumstances, and I was off at last. I started in an ordinary English suit, and I wore an ordinary English billycock, as I thought my more special exp...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217956628
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 86
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217956629
  • Publisher Date: 02 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 168 gr


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