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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter vi. responsive to Mr. Cupples's last words uttered from the brink of the pit into which his spirit was sinking, and probably forgotten straightway, Alec knocked at his door upon the Sunday evening, and entered. The strange creature was sitting in the same position as before, looking as if he had not risen since he spoke those words. But there was an alteration in the place, a certain Sunday look about the room, which Alec could not account for. The same caricatures jested from the walls; the same tumbler of toddy was steaming on the table amidst the same litter of books and papers covered with the same dust and marked with the same circles from the bottoms of wet tumblers and glasses. The same cuttyclay, of enviable blackness, reposed between the teeth of Mr. Cupples. After he had been seated for a few moments, however, Alec all at once discovered the source of the reformation-look of the place: Mr. Cupples had on a shirt-collar--clean and of imposing proportions. To this no doubt was attached a shirt, but as there was no further sign of its presence, it could not have affected the aspect of things. Although, however, this shirt-collar was no doubt the chief cause of the change of expression in the room, Alec, in the course of the evening, discovered further signs of improvement in the local morals; one, that the hearth had been cleared of a great heap of ashes, and now looked modest and moderate as if belonging to an old maid's cottage, instead of an old bachelor's garret; and another, that, upon the untidy table, lay an open book of divinity, a volume of Gurnall's Christian Armour namely, which I fear Mr. Cupples had chosen more for its wit than its devotion. While making these discoveries, Alec chanced to observe--he was...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781230223070
  • Publisher: Theclassics.Us
  • Publisher Imprint: Theclassics.Us
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 60
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 123022307X
  • Publisher Date: 12 Sep 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 127 gr


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