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. 1917 Excerpt: ...as formerly. He does not seem to grow feeble upon them in the least that I see. I go over to old Mrs. Howe's occasionally and take a hand at whist, where we play an easy goodnatured sort of game that does not put my skill to the test. I look back with great delight to your clubs--when we all foregathered before your ...
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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. 1917 Excerpt: ...as formerly. He does not seem to grow feeble upon them in the least that I see. I go over to old Mrs. Howe's occasionally and take a hand at whist, where we play an easy goodnatured sort of game that does not put my skill to the test. I look back with great delight to your clubs--when we all foregathered before your bright seacoal fire and each one saw three other such contented, nay hilarious men, for I think an observer could detect under the Don's gravity the twinkling of the inward eye. Well, I hope we shall see such pleasant times again and that we may, my dear man, I hope you will resume all your vigor and expel all your pains and that we others shall be able (unless one should be prevented by corpulency) to receive you with that delight which your return will certainly give us all. I send you my love, regard, esteem, any or all that you may want. I gave Charles Storey your remembrances and I send you his--pledging my word that he will most cordially ratify when he sees me. "Omnis ratihabitio retrotralatur et priori mandato sequiparatur." I see Mabel often and she appears to be in excellent condition. She and Sam and Clara figure in the sled line now. CHAPTER V THE MELLOW YEARS After coming home John Holmes fell comfortably back into the routine which he enjoyed more than foreign travel. Home for him meant not merely the simplest rooms in which he lodged at No. 5 Appian Way, or the little wooden house itself, with its typical inverted-V-shaped roof and small piazza, but also the collections of cats which his landlady, Miss Tolman, maintained and in each of which he took the characteristic interest. "Why don't you have better quarters, John?" an old contemporary asked him one day. "I shan't have better quarters till I have a be...
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B/W Illus. Very Good. No Jacket. 8 vo; 1.5 Pouinds. First Edition, First Printing; green c w/gilt decorations/titles; 290 clean, unmarked pages...From library & w/bookplate of Chase Osborn, famous explorer, geologists, journalist and governor of Michigan, 1911-1913;
