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. 1837 Excerpt: ...the gaming-table; you have been imprudent, but I have been otherwise; the lavish hand that has been ever open to help the needy, and to distribute wealth in entertaining false friends, has not been shut to me. I have saved a few hundreds unknown to you. Dod. Hundreds? Thousands, would not meet the demands upon me. Lucy ...
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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. 1837 Excerpt: ...the gaming-table; you have been imprudent, but I have been otherwise; the lavish hand that has been ever open to help the needy, and to distribute wealth in entertaining false friends, has not been shut to me. I have saved a few hundreds unknown to you. Dod. Hundreds? Thousands, would not meet the demands upon me. Lucy. Patience! patience! dear husband, you forget that you are Sir Peregrine's heir; at his death, we shall have ample means; meantime we can find a humble, but happy home, on some foreign shore. Dod. Bless you Lucy, bless you! you have, indeed, poured the balm of hope into a mind darkened with despair. Lucy. See Abel, how little is lost by confiding in a faithful wife; this is but a cloud, obscuring our happiness, which bursts, only to make our sunshine brighter; come dearest, you shall begin a new and happy life. Dod. And that I will. Weaned from the paths of extravagant ambition by the best of guides, a devoted, faithful wife! Exeunt together, R. H. 2 E. SCENE II. A Street. Enter Amelia hurriedly, attired meanly, Ame. Whither shall I fly for food and shelter? I am driven to despair. O Robson, to thee I owe these horrors! deceived by a false marriage, and then deserted in a foreign land; the victim of a father's curse, I have sunk into the lowest depths of misery. Whither shall I seek for aid? I have heard that my former servant has become a milliner. Flounce I will seek; time, and the hardships I have endured, have wrought such changes in my face, that she will not know me; I will ask for work.--(noise without)--Ah! that noise! I must leave this spot, or a prison might be my next abode. Exit. l. H. 1 E. Enter Soloman Snail, dragging after him Sam Scrag, dressed as a beggar, carrying a wooden leg. a. H. 1 E. Sol. Come along, I must take you up;...
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Add this copy of The Law of the Land, Or, London in the Last Century: a to cart. $53.62, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2015 by Palala Press.
