Henry Cottrell Rowland
The Closing Net
Paperback
(Forgotten Books April 21, 2017)
Excerpt from The Closing Net
MY friend, it's my belief that when it rains every third drop lands on a crook. You've no idea what a lot there are, and the only wonder is how they make a living. But your most dangerous crook is the gen tleman variety, and that was easy for me because my father's family was about the best in the United States, barring only my mother's. His stock was pure English and hers Dutch; you'll find both names in the school histories; both families had signers of the Declaration. They were both thoroughbreds, all right. The only trouble was that they were never married, and that made a lot of trouble for me, afterwards.
I spent the first six years of my life in a pretty little cottage down Boston way, and about the only person I saw was my old nursery governess, Ma'm'selle Durand, or Tante pi-pi, as I called her. Then, as far as I could make out, my father lost his fortune and his nerve at the same time, and they found him in his library dead. That settled my mother, and a little later Tante pi-fi faded away, and I found myself bawling my lungs open in the state asylum for orphans.
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MY friend, it's my belief that when it rains every third drop lands on a crook. You've no idea what a lot there are, and the only wonder is how they make a living. But your most dangerous crook is the gen tleman variety, and that was easy for me because my father's family was about the best in the United States, barring only my mother's. His stock was pure English and hers Dutch; you'll find both names in the school histories; both families had signers of the Declaration. They were both thoroughbreds, all right. The only trouble was that they were never married, and that made a lot of trouble for me, afterwards.
I spent the first six years of my life in a pretty little cottage down Boston way, and about the only person I saw was my old nursery governess, Ma'm'selle Durand, or Tante pi-pi, as I called her. Then, as far as I could make out, my father lost his fortune and his nerve at the same time, and they found him in his library dead. That settled my mother, and a little later Tante pi-fi faded away, and I found myself bawling my lungs open in the state asylum for orphans.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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.
- ISBN
- 1331029627 / 9781331029625
- Pages
- 362
- Weight
- 17.12 oz.
- Dimensions
- 5.98 x 0.75 in.
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