Excerpt from Left in Charge The day was hot, very, unmistakably a blazing July day that kicking over the traces, had torn itself loose from all conventional restraints of the calendar and was burning its way through the last Saturday in April. To the two no-account strangers within her gates that morning, Quincy, Illinois, was neither attractive nor impressive, for that was not the Quincy of to-day, who points to her cathedral, her colleges and churches; her mills, factories and breweries; her stately public buildings, ...
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Excerpt from Left in Charge The day was hot, very, unmistakably a blazing July day that kicking over the traces, had torn itself loose from all conventional restraints of the calendar and was burning its way through the last Saturday in April. To the two no-account strangers within her gates that morning, Quincy, Illinois, was neither attractive nor impressive, for that was not the Quincy of to-day, who points to her cathedral, her colleges and churches; her mills, factories and breweries; her stately public buildings, and, lifting her head high, declares, I am the third great city of my State! Oh, no! The Quincy of that far April morning was a lazy young trollop, lounging on her blufi, with the mighty Mississippi gur gling muddily at her feet. 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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