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. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...or the place in Lincolnshire. It is among their dignities. Sir Leicester is, perhaps, not wholly without an impression, though he has never resolved it into words, that the angel of death in the discharge of his necessary duties may observe to the shades of the aristocracy? THE FAMILY GOUT. 265 " My lords and ...
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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. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...or the place in Lincolnshire. It is among their dignities. Sir Leicester is, perhaps, not wholly without an impression, though he has never resolved it into words, that the angel of death in the discharge of his necessary duties may observe to the shades of the aristocracy? THE FAMILY GOUT. 265 " My lords and gentlemen, I have the honour to present to you another Dedlock certified to have arrived per the family gout.' Hence, Sir Leicester yields up his family legs to the family disorder, as if he held his name and fortune on that feudal tenure. He feels, that for a Dedlock to be laid upon his back and spasmodically twitched and stabbed in his extremities, is a liberty taken somewhere; but, he thinks, " We have all yielded to this; it belongs to us; it has, for some hundreds of vears, been understood that we are not to make the vaults in the park interesting on more ignoble terms; and I submit myself to the compromise." And a goodly show he makes, lying in a flush of crimson and gold, in the midst of the great drawing-room, before his favourite picture of my Lady, with broad strips of sunlight shining in, down the long perspective, through the long line of windows, and alternating with soft reliefs of shadow. Outside, the stately oaks, rooted for ages in the green ground which has never known ploughshare, but was still a Chase when kings rode to battle with sword and shield, and rode a-hunting with bow and arrow; bear witness to his greatness. Inside, his forefathers, looking on him from the walls, say, " Each of us was a passing reality here, and left this coloured shadow of himself, and melted into remembrance as dreamy as the distant voices of the rooks now lulling you to rest; and bear their testimony to his greatness, too. And he is very...
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Good. Book This volume contains Nicholas Nickleby, Christmas Books, A Tale of Two Cities, and Dombey and Son, 584 pages, double columned. 24 b/w Victorian plate illustrations in the pages and an 1870 portrait of Dickens at the frontispiece. The binding is forest green cloth with gilt floral decoration and stamped characters of Dickens with his portrait at center, also decorated on spine. 7-1/4" x 11-1/2". In good condition, the book has this wear: Yellowed pages. Spine gilt is rubbed off and there is some wear to front binding gilt. A few foxing spots at spine edge and back. Wear at extremities.
