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. 1884 Excerpt: ...reason for choosing Burgos, but it seemed a convenient place at which to take our first thorough rest. The next day's journey was a dull, dreary, wearisome affair. My companions had not shaken off the fatigue of the previous day, and now that I felt Philippa's safety was, comparatively speaking, assured, a reaction set ...
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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. 1884 Excerpt: ...reason for choosing Burgos, but it seemed a convenient place at which to take our first thorough rest. The next day's journey was a dull, dreary, wearisome affair. My companions had not shaken off the fatigue of the previous day, and now that I felt Philippa's safety was, comparatively speaking, assured, a reaction set in with me. No wonder! I shudder now as I think of the strain to which both body and mind had been subjected during the last fortnight. I was moody and listless. The air was full of fog and mist. The socalled express train pounded along after the well-known style of French railways. Orleans, Blois, Tours, Poictiers, Angouleme, Coutras, and other stations passed me as one in a dream. The dull day crept on until dark evening was upon us, and we were all thoroughly glad when our day's journey ended at Bordeaux. My mother, who was rather great at guidebooks, had beguiled part of the journey by a Murray, which somehow made its appearance from her traveling bag. As she knew we were to sleep at Bordeaux she had been laying down the law as to what we were to look at. We were to see the curious high wooden fifteenth-century houses of the old town; the cathedral, with its fine towers; the very old churches of St. Croix and St. Seurin, and a variety of other interesting objects. It needed all the assurance I possessed, all the invalid's querulousness and insistance I could assume, to induce her to consent to resume our journey the first thing in the morning. Even Philippa pleaded for delay, and gave me to understand that she thought I was using my mother unfairly. But I was firm. If I could I would have hurried on by the midnight train. Any way, now that we were within a few hours' journey of the frontier and of safety, I would leave no more than I coul...
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Very good. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. Rebound in quarter leather with marbled boards lettered gilt with decoration at spine. pp 178. Arrowsmith's Christmas Annual 1884. Slight rubbing; VG+.
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Fair. No Jacket. Size: 4 3/4" X 7 1/4"; FAIR / NO DUST JACKET as Issued. [nd] presumed circa 1887. 192 pp. + ads. Text clean and unmarked. Pages tanned. Paper wraps printed in black, chipped and worn, tanned. Backstrip chipped and partly missing. Text block with sewn and stapled binding intact, complete. Hugh Conway (1847-1885), the pen name of Frederick John Fargus, was an English novelist.