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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. Excerpt from book: Section 353 CHAPTER III. LEG-BAIL, BY ALL THE POWERS ! TT was a sweltering hot day, the hottest there textit{*- had been during the whole of that month of July, now rapidly drawing to a close, and Maggie Smythe suffered no little from the high temperature. A fleshy, full-blooded woman, who paid but the smallest possible attention to the requirements of health, she was seldom in condition, and an extra mile's walk in the sun, an extra pint of ale, or a slight over-indulgence in her favourite stimulant, rum, very soon knocked her up., She had been down in Chorlbury marketing that is so say doing a remarkably small share of business to a very large proportion of gossip and tipple. She went from shop to shop, giving such orders as were needful for the due carrying on of the commissariat at The Pines, but sheburdened herself with nothing at all, rightly concluding that it would be far wiserso far as ehe individually was concernedto send in a donkey-cart in the cool of the evening for her purchases, than to carry them herself. At all the places she stopped at she had a goodly talk with the owner or his missus; at most of them she allowed herself to be persuaded to just wet her lips with a friendly glass; but in the cases where such a hospitality had not beeu offered, she found that her sinking frame demanded the needful stimulant at the nearest inn or house of call. So by the time her list of things required was exhausted, the good lady found herself in a pleasant, nay, a jovial humour, and she thought she would just step down to see her old friend, Dr. Creasey, and enjoy with him a cool glass and an interesting chat over things past, present, and future. Of late she had been on very familiar terms indeed with the doctor, and considered herself as quite his confidant in all matters of impor...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781443278263
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1443278262
  • Publisher Date: 06 Jul 2009
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)


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