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Excerpt from Temple Bar, Vol. 85: With Which Is Incorporated "Bentley's Miscellany," a London Magazine, for Town and Country Readers; January to April 1889During the week the keeper's wife washed in the basement and Blopped soapy water about, that ran between the slates and formed puddles, lurking under corners, and when, on Sunday, the incautious foot rested on an angle of slate, the slab tilted and squirted forth the stale, unsavoury water.The room, as already said, was unceiled. The rafters were of solid oak; the boards above were of deal, and had shrunk in places, and in places dropped out the core of their knots. The keeper's children found a pleasure in poking sticks and fingers through, and in lying flat on the floor with an eye on the knot hole, surveying through it the proceedings in the Sunday-school below.About the floor in unsystematic arrangement spraddled forms of deal, rubbed by boys' trousers to a polish. Some of these forms were high in the leg, others short. No two were on a level, and no two were of the same length. They were rudely set about the floor in rhomboidal shapes, or rather in trapeziums, which according to Euclid have no defined shapes at all.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

Excerpt from From Waterloo to the Peninsula, Vol. 1 of 2: Four Months Hard Labor in Belgium, Holland, Germany, and SpainHis apparel must be mean, his back bent, his head cast down, his knees hinged, his hands submissively folded before him. Then, with bated breath - if he wishes to go to a second edition - he must say that he is very sorry for what he has done; he must promise amend ment for the next time; if he have any friends, he must' style them too partial if he have any enemies, he must strive to conciliate them by adroit flattery if he have a patron, or hope to have one, he must tell him, without sticking at the clumsiness of the compli ment, that he is good, and great, and beautiful; that he is an ornament to his sex, and a descendant of the Kings of Latium. There is no other way. I speak from experience. I have written twenty prefaces to books of mine own, and many more to books by other people. I have tried the preface argumentative, the preface self-asserting, the preface historical and critical, the preface circumlocutory, the preface sardonic, the preface contemptuous, and the preface indignant. Saddened, and I hope made wise, by many rebuffs, I have come to the conclusion that to achieve prefatory success the exemplar followed must not be Johnson, or Addison, or Steele - not Victor Hugo.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

Excerpt from From Waterloo to the Peninsula, Vol. 2 of 2: Four Months Hard Labour in Belgium, Holland, Germany, and SpainShould there be a revolution in some months' time Has Sedition become an accepted bill, and must it fall.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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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Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN DANGEROUS: WHO WAS A SOLDIER, A SAILOR, A MERCHANT, A SPY, A SLAVE AMONG THE MOORS, A BASHAW IN THE SERVICE OF THE GRAND TURK, AND Died at last in his own House in Hanover Square. A NARRATIVE IN OLD-FASHIONED ENGLISH. ATTEMPTED BY GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA. IN THIS EDITION THREE VOLUMES.

Excerpt from The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3: Who Was a Soldier, a Sailor, a Merchant, a Spy, a Slave Among the Moors, a Bashaw in the Service of the Grand Turk, and Died at Last in His Own House in Hanover Square; A Narrative in Old-Fashioned EnglishIN the last century - and many centuries before the last; but it is about the eighteenth that I am specially speaking - long before steamers and railways, or even frigate-built ships and flying coaches were dreamt of, when an Englishman went abroad, he stopped there. When he came back, if at all, it was, as a rule, grizzled and sunburnt, his na tive habits all unlearnt, and his native tongue more than half forgotten. Even the Grand Tour, with all that money could purchase in the way of couriers and post-horses, to em pedite matters for my Lord, his chaplain, his courier, and his dancing master, took as.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

Excerpt from The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3: Who Was a Soldier, a Sailor, a Merchant, a Spy, a Slave Among the Moors, a Bashaw in the Service of the Grand Turk, and Died at Last in Hs Own House in Hanover Square; A Narrative in Old-Fashioned EnglishFamished lips. And my Lady Hopwood,' and the fine Madams her daughters, - all laced and furbelowed, and with Widows' and orphans' tears, and the blood-drops of crimped seamen and kidnapped children, twinkling in their Stomachers for gems.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.