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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. MADAME NURVETCHKY IS INTRODUCED TO THE LEGACY. T17HEN Mr. Hookkam found himself in the street, he was conscious, so far as he was conscious of anything, and for the first few moments that was saying very little indeed, of an emphatically complicated state of mind. He could not, so to speak, unravel his thoughts. Without any clear idea of where it was that he was going, he wandered up towards Oxford Street, the diamond tightly grasped in his left hand. In Oxford Street, almost mechanically, he stopped in front of a newsagent's shop, and his eye was caught by the displayed contents bills of the newspapers of the day. One item of news seemed to be the item in all of them. "Awful Accident in a Mine. Appalling Loss of Life." The announcement was repeated in almost the same words on all the bills. Slipping the diamond into his waistcoat pocket, Mr. Hookham went in and bought a paper, --scarcely knowing why, for by this time his own copy awaited him at home. He opened the paper in the shop. His glance fastened on the displayed headlines which called attention to the accident to the mine. The first few words were enough for him. A famous Cornish mine, which carried its workings far under the sea, had given way overhead, and had been swallowed up by the waves. Mine and miners alike had disappeared. Mr. Hookham's hands dropped to his side. "I hope there is nothing the matter, sir?" said the woman behind the counter. "I hope no friends of yours were in that dreadful mine?" Without a word Mr. Hookham staggered out of the shop, clutching the paper in his hand. "I will go to Schwabe," he told himself. "I will go to Schwabe." He started at a good round pace to walk towards Holborn, reading the paper by snatches as he went. It was painful reading. Unless the ...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781150493447
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 62
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150493445
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 127 gr


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