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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.1839 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V. The Story of the Old Gentleman. As intimated in the last chapter, Solomon opened the MS. containing the Sketch of the Life of the "Old Gentleman;" and the young one, with deep interest, read as follows: --"THE STORY OF THE OLD GENTLEMAN. "I had attained that period of life, at which, though a married man may be classified as not an old one, a bachelor never is. The grand climacterie of this unfortunate class of society seems to be fixed, by general consent, at forty to forty-five years of age. That, with them, is the turning point of existence. They are considered, after it, to be verging into the vale of years. In a way of sport to others, but of premature death to themselves, they are designated, thenceforth, --' Old' Bachelors. "By the aid of a ruddy countenance, a wellcut coat, a clean chin, a slender and elastic figure, and a light step in a quadrille, I contrived, --as your men at Lloyd's say, --to keep upon the A 1 list, till I had seen full nine lustres. By being upon the A 1 list, I mean that I was allowed, with a few exceptions taken by invidious persons, to rank as a first-rate man. By this, again, I mean a man, who with perfect propriety might have proposed marriage to a woman of two or three and twenty. None of those who had just passed their teens refused to dance with me; nor was I obliged, at fancy balls, to make my appearance in the decorous costume of a court dress. "People rather speculated than pronounced upon my age; and when I had taken particular pains at my toilet, I was often told, by very discriminating mothers, 'How well I looked!' "A few obvious wrinkles under my eyes, and some awkwardly prominent grey hairs, began, about this time, a little to disturb my tranquillity. A very slight but evidently growing corpulency rendere...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781458849137
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 48
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1458849139
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 104 gr

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