Excerpt from Tommy and Grizel, Vol. 1 of 2 He had no beard. Young man, let your beard grow. Those who have forgotten all else about Pym may recall him in these words. They were his one counsel to literary aspirants, who, according as they took it, are now bearded and prosperous or Shaven and on the rates. To shave costs three pence, another threepence for loss of time nearly ten pounds a year, three hundred pounds since Pym's chin first bristled. With his heard he could have bought an annuity or a cottage in the coun try, ...
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Excerpt from Tommy and Grizel, Vol. 1 of 2 He had no beard. Young man, let your beard grow. Those who have forgotten all else about Pym may recall him in these words. They were his one counsel to literary aspirants, who, according as they took it, are now bearded and prosperous or Shaven and on the rates. To shave costs three pence, another threepence for loss of time nearly ten pounds a year, three hundred pounds since Pym's chin first bristled. With his heard he could have bought an annuity or a cottage in the coun try, he could have had a wife and children, and driven his dog-cart, and been made a church-war den. All gone, all shaved, and for what? When he asked this question he would move his hand across his chin with a sigh, and so, bravely to the barber's. Pym was at present Suffering from an ailment that had spread him out on that sofa again and again acute disinclination to work. 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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