Excerpt from Scrope, or the Lost Library: A Novel of New York and Hartford Thus vociferated, at a quarter past five o'clock in the afternoon of Tues day, January 9th, A. D. 186 with the professional accelerando and with a final smart rising inflection, that experienced and successful auctioneer Mr. Howlan'd Ball, a broad-shouldered powerful looking man of middle height, with a large head, full eyes, a bluff look, spectacles and plenty of stiff short iron gray hair. A tall personage, old, gaunt and dry, but ...
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Excerpt from Scrope, or the Lost Library: A Novel of New York and Hartford Thus vociferated, at a quarter past five o'clock in the afternoon of Tues day, January 9th, A. D. 186 with the professional accelerando and with a final smart rising inflection, that experienced and successful auctioneer Mr. Howlan'd Ball, a broad-shouldered powerful looking man of middle height, with a large head, full eyes, a bluff look, spectacles and plenty of stiff short iron gray hair. A tall personage, old, gaunt and dry, but apparently strong, with dus ty black clothes and a stove-pipe hat, pulled down over his eyes in the front row of seats, a little to one side of Mr. Ball's desk, answered in a grave dry deliberate voice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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