This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 Excerpt: ... for abstaining from urging his claims." " Let me see him," replied Frederick, " and I will do my best to extricate you from your perplexity. It will be better for me to see him than for you. I will also see his legal adviser, and will endeavour to get the matter settled. I suppose the property in question is but a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 Excerpt: ... for abstaining from urging his claims." " Let me see him," replied Frederick, " and I will do my best to extricate you from your perplexity. It will be better for me to see him than for you. I will also see his legal adviser, and will endeavour to get the matter settled. I suppose the property in question is but a trirle." Mr. Stratton again groaned, and said, " No, no, that is the evil. If it were merely a trifle I might make up the loss, but my whole estate would not much more than purchase it." " Indeed!" answered Frederick, " and what can a man like that want with so large a property? it will be rather an incumbrance to him. It cannot increase the sum of his actual enjoyment. Let me see him, let me see him; and make yourself quite easy; I have no doubt that every thing will be settled very quietly and calmly. What is his address?" Mr. Stratton, with a smile of incredulity, handed Shepherd's letter to his son: the following is a copy: " Sir, " i see by the papers that thear is a larg esteat what corns to my wife as air at law and i donnow whi i shudnt hav mi rites i cum to lonlun all the waie from parriss to mak enquiris about the propetty and i hav sene a lawer what tells me i av evvery bit as gud a rites to that esteat as the King as to his crone god bles him so sir pleas to tell missus as ou all about it i lodges at Missis Wites tobackernist nere wite chaple. " Your most obedyent servant torn shepperd." Much as Frederick Stratton professed to despise the forms and modes of civilized life, and levelling as were his general notions and ordinary language, he could not but feel a kind of aristocratical contempt for the vulgar mind and clumsy hand which penned the above epistle. He...
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