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 edition. Excerpt: ...the universe a large diningroom, and their imaginations are for ever culinary. Talking has some semblance of philosophizing; and philosophy is always highly respectable, at least it thinks itself so. By means of various interruptions and digressions, the walk to the cottage in which poor Williams had died was ...
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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 edition. Excerpt: ...the universe a large diningroom, and their imaginations are for ever culinary. Talking has some semblance of philosophizing; and philosophy is always highly respectable, at least it thinks itself so. By means of various interruptions and digressions, the walk to the cottage in which poor Williams had died was considerably delayed, and they found, when they arrived there, that though there might be time enough to bestow their alms upon the destitute and worse than widowed woman, yet they could not indulge themselves with any discourse of sympathy with the poor mourner. When, however, they entered the cottage, they found that the poor woman whom they were seeking was not there, and her place was supplied by two old women, who could give no other account of the matter, than that they were employed to attend the burying of the deceased, and that the person who was with him when he died, had been taken ill, and was gone to her friends; but who her friends were, or in what place they lived, or by what conveyance the poor woman had been removed, they could not say. Mr. Riddleton, who was never backward in asking questions, though by no means particular in having them answered, made many inquiries, to which there could not be found any satisfactory or intelligible reply. The most astonishing part of the affair was, that when he inquired, whether any pecuniary assistance was required, he received an answer in the negative. He took it for granted, that his cousin Brownlow had amply attended to that matter. CHAPTER XXV. After the matters recorded in the preceding chapter had taken place, Frederick Stratton returned to Nettlethorpe, better pleased with himself than he had been for many years, but by no means satisfied with all existing circumstances. The...
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