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. 1896 Excerpt: ... up the weepy pallor of her countenance. "I must ask you to go around and see my man John," she says in a gracious voice in which there is a pathetic sound of tears. Our two men almost prostrate themselves in apologizing for their intrusion upon the charming little widow's grief. They feel as they betake themselves to ...
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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. 1896 Excerpt: ... up the weepy pallor of her countenance. "I must ask you to go around and see my man John," she says in a gracious voice in which there is a pathetic sound of tears. Our two men almost prostrate themselves in apologizing for their intrusion upon the charming little widow's grief. They feel as they betake themselves to the stables that they must be a born combination of the blockhead and brute to have thought for a moment of seeing the widow in person about the horse. Bad enough that she must part with her husband's pet that she shouldn't be bothered with selling it, too. "My man John" is a most obliging and well trained coachman. When he puts his heels together and touches his crepe-banded hat respectfully the men from the large city not a hundred miles from Chicago feel that he is the soul of honesty. The stable is magnificent, and there is a display of costly equipages and glittering harness. Rosie R is found in a padded stall, and is a goodlooking specimen of the equine race. The two men fancy they see points worth $3,000 all over her. They call up a picture of Rosie R in a glittering harness, drawing a swell little carriage with the sweet little widow handling the ribbons. And then they feel that it was beastly for her husband to die and leave her without the means to keep Rosie R. They also see in imagination themselves breaking the record of the fastest horse in their city with Rosie R, scooping up the shekels from the boys. Lowell, remembering his horse wisdom, slips a ten dollar bill into John's hand for points on Rosie R. John knows a great deal about Rosie R, for he was his late dear master's right-hand man in horse matters, but he doesn't know a single, solitary point in Rosie R's disfavor. Our merchant is wonderfully impressed...
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