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The Refugee (Volume 2); A Romance

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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. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Which led to the publication of these volumes. Captain Matthew Murgatroyd, to Gideon Sparrow, Esquire, Counsellor at Law, New-York city, dated Ryeneck, New- York, July 10th, 1824. Dear Sir, Mr. Brindle, who brought up the merchandise for the Smiths, handed me your obliging1 letter of the 25th ult, in which you accuse me of forgetting my promise in relation to the MSS. Really, sir, the promise is not forgotten, but the humour, which prompted me to make it, is cooled. 1 recollect time, place, and circumstances, with uncommon accuracy. It was in 1821. We were sitting under the great rare-ripe pear-tree in my orchard, both of us in excellent spirits. I, immoderately joyful, on account of my escape from Leslie and his host of suborned witnesses; and you, as merry as Rabelais, under the treble influence of a beeker of toddy, a thirty pound fee, and a legal victory. Under these circumstances, I made the promise, which I fear I shall rue. At that time, I was too generous to be just. I have some dislike to submitting a composition of mine to the eye of a man possessed of so much critical judgment, classical learning, and refined taste. You know, sir, I was brought up in a camp, having entered in '75, and continued in the army through the revolution, and nearly a year after its close. I retired, sir, in '84, with as liberal an allowance of scars and buffets as ever fell to the lot of a soldier since the days of Baron Trenck. I was left poor and destitute, and was compelled for some years to toil very hard to support my family. 1 got no plunder except a copy of Puyseg- ger on the Enterprise of Durazzo, an odd volume of Folard, and a few second-hand articles for my wife's use. Kicks, Counsellor, were a kind of rations more promptly paid in those days than coppers Not that I find ...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781458936035
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 130
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1458936031
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 245 gr


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