People;
Adair Welcker
Paperback
(RareBooksClub.com, May 14, 2012)
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. 1913 Excerpt: ...the Kohinoor; a new Lear,--a new Hamlet. So Mr. Divisor, finding her by another sought, wished Mrs. Lembkin for himself. That evening, after having been as nervous all day as a boy can be with a dime in his pocket, and no opportunity to spend it, he proposed and was well rewarded for the courageous act. He was accepted. But, under the circumstances, this was not enough. He wished to marry at once, but could assign no reason. The astonished lady at last consented and the next day it was announced that at a certain San Francisco church, at a given hour and a given day they would be married; and so came it to pass. As the happy pair were departing from the church a decrepit man with tears in his eyes stopped them,--as Mr. Divisor imagined, with the purpose to bless them. The lady, in her then frame of mind, had a kindly feeling for all of the world; would have refrained from stepping on the humblest of worms and she introduced to her husband, unconscious of the fact that he had ever heard his name, the rival from whom he had won her. We will stop here and in a later report will give a full and detailed account of Mr. Divisor's surprise when, for the first time, he saw who had been the rival, from the power of whose charms the lady had been wrested. A Phgsiognomist, Who Knew Not What Others Were Going to Think of His Own Face and in Con-sequence Do to Him "Physiognomy?" said the lawyer, while conversing with me, as we walked along the street. "I once saw an example of what most men know on the subject there." He pointed to a building constructed of granite blocks, with an iron stairway leading up to an iron door having a peep-hole in it, in front of whose windows were iron bars--the county jail. "Wait till you get to my office, and I'll...