[Scribner's] Stories by English Authors in Italy
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[Scribner's] Stories by English Authors in Italy
Free DownloadA FAITHFUL RETAINER James PaynBIANCA W. E. NorrisGONERIL A. Mary F. RobinsonTHE BRIGAND'S BRIDE Laurence OliphantMRS. GENERAL TALBOYS Anthony Trollope
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since pedestrian exercise (which he also hated)
exhausted him, he had a groom and dog-cart always at his own disposal.
It was a day of great excitement for me, who had never before seen a
race-course. The flags, the grand stand (a rude erection of planks,
which came down, by-the-bye, the next year during the race for the
cup, and reduced the sporting population), the insinuating gipsies,
the bawling card-sellers, and especially the shining horses with their
twisted manes, all excited my admiration.
I was well acquainted with them in fiction; and these illustrations of the books I loved so well delighted me. Richard, who had read less and seen more, was bent on business.
He was tall for his age, but very slight and youthful-looking, and the contrast of his appearance with that of the company in the little ring, composed as it was of a choice selection of the roughest blackguards in England, was very striking.
Many of these knew who he was, and were very glad to see him, but only one of the book-maker
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