Excerpt from The Doctor Speaks: Being Some Episodes in the Experiences of John Selkirk It was quite in the way Of things that I should speak to these children, and after a show of proper suspicion on the part of the demure little nurse maid, I was readily permitted to do so. Once or twice I brought them little presents, which were reluctantly but virtuously refused, by which I guessed that my character had been discussed in No. XIII. -after a while it came to be a pre arranged thing that I should meet them for ten minutes ...
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Excerpt from The Doctor Speaks: Being Some Episodes in the Experiences of John Selkirk It was quite in the way Of things that I should speak to these children, and after a show of proper suspicion on the part of the demure little nurse maid, I was readily permitted to do so. Once or twice I brought them little presents, which were reluctantly but virtuously refused, by which I guessed that my character had been discussed in No. XIII. -after a while it came to be a pre arranged thing that I should meet them for ten minutes about the time when the afternoon faded, and they chattered freely to me about themselves and their home. I learned that their father was always writing, and that their mother made all their clothes the latter was communicated with obvious pride. One day I gave them a little packet of sweets with my card, and from that time. 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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