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. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ...work. But when I took to sellin' fl'ars 'e went on the drink and left me. I waited for 'im fer a long time. Then I thought I'd better try and find the Albert Edward. I used ter sleep under 'aystacks. They did very nicely fer us. I was never frightened o' nights. I 'ad something to whisper to, and to live for. ...
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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. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ...work. But when I took to sellin' fl'ars 'e went on the drink and left me. I waited for 'im fer a long time. Then I thought I'd better try and find the Albert Edward. I used ter sleep under 'aystacks. They did very nicely fer us. I was never frightened o' nights. I 'ad something to whisper to, and to live for. A beautiful maternal smile goes all over her face. Harry. Why didn't he marry you, Mary Ann? Mary Ann. 'E'd got a wife. 'E told me so the day 'e left... I was to blame fer this, 'e said. Harry. You--you! What a coward. You know nothing. Mary Ann. That's it, sir. Harry. What do you mean? Mary Ann. Me knowing nothing. Harry. I don't understand you. Mary Ann. 'E explained it all right ter me, sir. Me knowin' nothin' 'e says, and what it all meant, brought it abart. If I'd a bin told when I was old enough to understand I should a sent 'im awiy, 'e says, double quick, and saved 'im and me and the little un from this 'ere. But I'm afraid I'm keepin' you abart, sir. Harry grimly. Go on. Mary Ann having a nice bit of news. The man ain't built for thinkin', Jack sez. 'E knows, but 'e ain't perfect an' won't let 'isself think. 'E says as 'ow if we was taught ter think and knew as much as the man, there'd be very little of this 'ere trouble fer us. It's the mother first, 'e says, and then us, who is ter blame, never the men. Harry. My God! He springs up. Mary Ann nervously. I beg pardon, sir? Harry in a sort of amazement. Can that brute be right? Can it be that we--the mothers and fathers--are partly to blame for this, for all such things as this? Mary Ann. You side with 'im, sir? Harry. No. I side with you, my poor child, with you against your mother, myself, my wife, all the mothers and fathers and teachers who are answerable to God for the disaster...
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Very Good. No Jacket. Book White-stamped olive cloth. Aged endpapers. No names, clean text. No dust jacket. With b/w stills from the play. With ads. Solid. 1811 shelf.
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8vo. 307, [1] pp., plus 16 pp. publ. ads. Frontisp., numerous plates. Dark blue cloth, white lettering on front cover & spine (slight shelfwear), w/ d.j. cover art by William L. Jacobs (minor chipping head & foot of spine), NF/VG-. First Theatre Edition of this interesting period piece of the folly of not advising the next generation about sex. Hamilton was a playwright, as well as cartoonist and caricaturist who drew everyone from George Bernard Shaw & Lytton Strachey to Winston Churchill & Lord Kitchener.
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