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. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ...allow me to ask--were you long there?" "Long!" replied the oriental, as if in astonishment. "Long enough to catch fourteen fevers--four jungle, eight liver, and two coup-desoleils--twelve times given over, and once buried!" This assertion somewhat astonished all his hearers, more particularly those worthy ...
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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. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ...allow me to ask--were you long there?" "Long!" replied the oriental, as if in astonishment. "Long enough to catch fourteen fevers--four jungle, eight liver, and two coup-desoleils--twelve times given over, and once buried!" This assertion somewhat astonished all his hearers, more particularly those worthy civic functionaries who had ever been accustomed to couple the idea of a burial with long-tailed horses, mourning coaches, cake and wine, a stone vault, and laudatory epitaph; and, accordingly, their features visibly expressed their wonder how a person could have gone through the extremely disagreeable ordeal, and yet reappear, so little incommoded by his decease, as was there exemplified in the case of the Honourable Mark Cooley. The conversation which Lord Dropmore was assiduously carrying on with his fair hostess, had far more attraction in his eyes than any elaborate detail of the most marvellous of eastern wonders, and consequently he paid but small attention to the account of the miracles then relating. The astonishment which succeeded Mr. Cooley's last assertion, produced a momentary silence, an event little in accordance with the Baronet's wishes, who, unwilling that Lord Dropmore's attention should for an instant form matter for observation, essayed to prolong the subject.--" I was not previously aware of your having penetrated so deeply into the earth, Cooley," commenced Sir George. "Nor I neither," added Major Storkley;." though I recollect a circumstance which occurred when I was a boy at school--a very singular circumstance, which I will relate, and which makes me fully understand the position in which Mr. Cooley was placed." "The plague you do," thought the gentleman...
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