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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. 1900. Excerpt: ... TWO HOURS. 'Girl, get you in ' She went, and in one month They wedded her to sixty thousand pounds, To lands in Kent, and messuages in York, And slight Sir Eobert with his watery smile And educated whisker. I. What restless genius is it that takes a malicious pleasure in shifting and mingling the various materials of which daily life is composed? No sooner are a set of people and circumstances comfortably sorted out together, than they are suddenly engulphed, dispersed, revolved away, --no sooner are they well dispersed than all the winds, and horses, and laws of gravitation are struggling to bring them together again. Take, for instance, a colony of people living next door to each other and happily established. How much time are they left in peace? Or let us even take a company of five or six persons comfortably talking round a fire. How long will their talk last on? An hour rarely--half-an-hour, perhaps--even ten minutes is something saved out of the rush of circumstance; and then a clock begins to strike any number from one to twelve; an organ to grind distractingly; a carriage to roll slowly, crushing the gravel outside. Visions flit in; of expectant wives and husbands, of impatient coachmen, of other semi-circles: enter Mrs. Grundy: five o'clock tea; the fire begins to smoke, or what not, and the comfortable little circles jar, break up, disperse in all directions. And, indeed, if a certain number of people are happily established together, the whole combination of accidental circumstances is against them, and nothing can happen that will not interfere more or less with their harmony. Years ago a set of people had been sitting round the fire at Brand House, and had then dispersed east and west, and for a dozen years, and on the day about which I am wr...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781154385151
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 84
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1154385159
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 168 gr


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