Excerpt from Beyond the Breakers: A Story of the Present Day Well, said the other, city bills are good enough, but I'm going South to morrow, and you may as well give me a couple of those half-eagles. Heartily welcome, said Terence, paying him, and taking a receipt in te turn. If the two men who happened at the moment to be the only occupants of the bar-room except the stranger, had chanced to notice the eager, sidelong, persistent look which the latter cast on the gold that still lay scattered on the counter, it might ...
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Excerpt from Beyond the Breakers: A Story of the Present Day Well, said the other, city bills are good enough, but I'm going South to morrow, and you may as well give me a couple of those half-eagles. Heartily welcome, said Terence, paying him, and taking a receipt in te turn. If the two men who happened at the moment to be the only occupants of the bar-room except the stranger, had chanced to notice the eager, sidelong, persistent look which the latter cast on the gold that still lay scattered on the counter, it might have been interpreted to his discredit; yet one ought not to think hard of the hungry vagrant who, as he passes the brilliantly-lighted win dow of a pastry cook's shop, casts wist ful glances at tart and cheese-cake. 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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