Excerpt from Specially Selected: A Choice of Essays This lady was small, but Of the superb gallantry of her kind, swift, impulsive, ever gay and ever loving. She was not more than three years old when she died thus paradoxically through the stafi Of life, but already, thanks to the wise and thoughtful decrees Of Nature, she had stamped her image upon as adorable a family Of little beautiful uglies as you ever saw, one Of whom, the image Of her mother, is at the moment wonder ing when I shall return to the armchair in order ...
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Excerpt from Specially Selected: A Choice of Essays This lady was small, but Of the superb gallantry of her kind, swift, impulsive, ever gay and ever loving. She was not more than three years old when she died thus paradoxically through the stafi Of life, but already, thanks to the wise and thoughtful decrees Of Nature, she had stamped her image upon as adorable a family Of little beautiful uglies as you ever saw, one Of whom, the image Of her mother, is at the moment wonder ing when I shall return to the armchair in order to make again a lap. 50 that, though it is hard that dogs should so quickly pass through the lighted hall between darkness and darkness, yet there is ever another left: not, Of course, the same, for nothing is the same, but like enough in devout ways and trustworthiness Of habits to console us. And now and again, Of course, it may chance that the new dog is the better. As for Shadow, my black spaniel now under sentence, he has never been anything but blunderingly devoted. As a dog he is not clever. TO be pursued by him means. 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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