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. 1870 Excerpt: ... hoodwink the objectionable oW father by pretending to accep the addresses of his friend, the repnlaive old note-shaver. To the lovely and importunate Belinda, I sent an ardent reply, making an appointment to meet her on the ensuing evening. But unfortunately, at the appointed time my confounded timidity stepped in, ...
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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. 1870 Excerpt: ... hoodwink the objectionable oW father by pretending to accep the addresses of his friend, the repnlaive old note-shaver. To the lovely and importunate Belinda, I sent an ardent reply, making an appointment to meet her on the ensuing evening. But unfortunately, at the appointed time my confounded timidity stepped in, and I couldn't make up my mind to keep it. A reproachful letter from her raised my courage; and in order to bind myself down to keep the next appointment, I wrote her a formal promise of marriage, asking her to meet me on the ensuing evening. This appointment I also failed to keep; but I sent her my photograph, requesting the favor of hers in return. Well, in due course it came; but conceive my horror, rage, and disgust, when I discovered that, instead of a blooming young lady of oneand-twenty, I had given a formal promise of marriage to a battered old hag of seventy, without a tooth in her misshapen old mouth, or a hair on her antiquated old head! So, as my first and only matrimonial venture has turned out a decidedly and unmistakable failure, I've given up all hopes of ever getting married--provided, that is to say, that the affectionate old lady don't insist on her bargain--and spend an uncomfortable bachelor existence in this particularly uncomfortable old room;--at least, it looks untidy, but in point of fact it isn't. There isn't an article in it which hasn't its duly appointed place. For instance, I want the shining brush. Very good. Now anybody, to judge from the present condition of this room, would be justified in regarding the task of finding a shining brush, as a new edition of the old feat of the needle and the bottle of hay. But, in point of fact, it is not so. I know, without looking, that that shining brush is exactly three feet ...
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Fair. No Dust Jacket. A Fair copy in rubbed paper-covered boards and cloth spine. Mild tanning to the paper, but with the text legible throughout. A sound reading copy.
