This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER FIFTEENTH. And so does the Coroner. fAMBLING and drinking made short work with the funds P. had obtained by the sale of his house and furniture. There came a day when coachman and valet left P. because their wages were not paid. The carriage and horses were sold on account of the bill for keep ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER FIFTEENTH. And so does the Coroner. fAMBLING and drinking made short work with the funds P. had obtained by the sale of his house and furniture. There came a day when coachman and valet left P. because their wages were not paid. The carriage and horses were sold on account of the bill for keep at the livery-stable; the coachman, by a well-timed suit, getting part of the price for the money due him, the other servant having paid himself by a watch, a ring, and a dressing-case. Some little time after this P. left the fashionable hotel, absolutely ejected, because of his inability to settle for his board; and his trunks being detained for debt, this heir of a great fortune, who had lived in luxury, went down to Mrs. Bently's "Happy Home Hotel," on Water street, with only a portmanteau of clothing, a few dollars in his pocket, and no trinket of value left him except the emerald ring on his finger. The Happy Home was the chosen resort of vermin innumerable and unmentionable; grimy windows shut out the view of the foul street, with ragged urchins playing in the oozing slime of the sewers. From the dark kitchen came up a stench of onions, tobacco, gin, and stale mutton; through all the dingy rooms rang the voices of Mrs. Bently and Mrs. Jillet, quarrelling over scores and money, and the short yelps of a starved dog, and the impish little slave, whose mother had died of Mrs. Bently's whiskey. Mrs. Bently's discerning eye read the history of her dear Mr. Dean's misadventures, and comprehended the low ebb of his fortunes. "I've been a losing money, Mr. Dean, sir," she said, on the second day of his stay, "and I've made new rules. Just for business sake, would you pay me an advance, sir?" P. paid her ten dollars. "I'll not trust him, he's...
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Edition:
1871, Porter & Coates
Hardcover
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Edition:
First edn
Publisher:
Porter & Coates
Published:
1871
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
12513767478
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8vo, pp. 276. Maroon cloth (spine faded), a very food copy. Wright II, 2810. A temperance tale.
