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Temptation and atonement, and other tales Volume 1

Catherine Gore

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Description: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. 1847 ...make their appearance at every door. Not a tyro of a clerk but seems to be learning to draw in figures. Saints and sinners unite in bidding their fellow-creatures L.S.D.--d; and, knowing our inability before they ask, and their ignorance in asking, request us, "at our earliest convenience," to settle their small accounts. The world seems bent, in short, upon prolonging by weariness of spirit the brevity of the shortest day of the year! Among mine enemies (at the period when I was beginning to comprehend the identity between an enemy and a creditor) was a certain rich man, who swore he was a very poor one,--Jonas Cox by name, and a tailor by "nature. Yes, by nature; for he was born a tailor, a chip of the old shop-board, a Snip of many generations. There had been as many Coxes in his cabbagery as Guelphs upon the throne of Great Britain. He was Cox VI., of Poland Street; had come into the world cross-legged, and was likely to exhibit his cross-bones in the same sartorial bearings. Jonas Cox, I blush to own, was my family tailor. Though his cut was such as fully to justify my cutting him, in recalling to mind how he had admeasured me for my schoolboy jackets aforetime, and annually wasted upon my crabbed uncle the assurance (so sweet in the ears of parents) that I was "growing a fine young gentleman," when I grew to be merely a fine gentleman, I remembered the days of my youth and Jonas Cox--eschewed Stultz, Burghart, and Buckmaster, Cooke, Inkson, and Curlewis,--and left my measures to the exclusive care of Poland Street, as her Majesty those of Government to the hands of Sir Robert Peel. So long as I could be classed among the good customers of Jonas, I was "dressed," as dinners are promised at suburban taverns, "on t...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Temptation and atonement, and other tales Volume 1. To get started finding Temptation and atonement, and other tales Volume 1, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: 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. 1847 ...make their appearance at every door. Not a tyro of a clerk but seems to be learning to draw in figures. Saints and sinners unite in bidding their fellow-creatures L.S.D.--d; and, knowing our inability before they ask, and their ignorance in asking, request us, "at our earliest convenience," to settle their small accounts. The world seems bent, in short, upon prolonging by weariness of spirit the brevity of the shortest day of the year! Among mine enemies (at the period when I was beginning to comprehend the identity between an enemy and a creditor) was a certain rich man, who swore he was a very poor one,--Jonas Cox by name, and a tailor by "nature. Yes, by nature; for he was born a tailor, a chip of the old shop-board, a Snip of many generations. There had been as many Coxes in his cabbagery as Guelphs upon the throne of Great Britain. He was Cox VI., of Poland Street; had come into the world cross-legged, and was likely to exhibit his cross-bones in the same sartorial bearings. Jonas Cox, I blush to own, was my family tailor. Though his cut was such as fully to justify my cutting him, in recalling to mind how he had admeasured me for my schoolboy jackets aforetime, and annually wasted upon my crabbed uncle the assurance (so sweet in the ears of parents) that I was "growing a fine young gentleman," when I grew to be merely a fine gentleman, I remembered the days of my youth and Jonas Cox--eschewed Stultz, Burghart, and Buckmaster, Cooke, Inkson, and Curlewis,--and left my measures to the exclusive care of Poland Street, as her Majesty those of Government to the hands of Sir Robert Peel. So long as I could be classed among the good customers of Jonas, I was "dressed," as dinners are promised at suburban taverns, "on t...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Temptation and atonement, and other tales Volume 1. To get started finding Temptation and atonement, and other tales Volume 1, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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