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The Disowned Volume 1

The Disowned Volume 1

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ISBN10: 0217117236
ISBN13: 9780217117234
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.51 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER V. Your name, sir! Ha! my name, you say, ?my name ? 'T is well; my name ? is ? nay, I must consider. PeJrillo. This accident occasioned a delay of some days in the plans of the young gentleman, for whom we trust, very soon, both for our own convenience and that of our reader, to find a fitting appellation. Mr. Mordaunt, after seeing every attention paid to him, both surgical and hospitable, took his departure with a promise to call the next day, leaving behind him a strong impression of curiosity and interest to serve our hero as some mental occupation until his return. The bonny landlady came up in a new cap, with blue ribbons, in the course of the evening, to pay a visit of inquiry to the handsome patient, who was removed from the Griffin, No. 4, to the Dragon, No. 8: a room whose merits were exactly in proportion to its number, ? namely, twice as great as those of No. 4. Well, sir, said Mrs. Taptape, with a courtesy, I trust you find yourself better. At this moment I do, said the gallant youth, with a significant air. Hem! quoth the landlady. A pause ensued. In spite. of the compliment, a certain suspicion suddenly darted across the mind of the hostess. Strong as are the prepossessions of the sex, those of the profession are much stronger. Honest folk, thought the landlady, don't travel with their initials only; the last ' Whitehall Evening' was full of shocking accounts of swindlers and cheats; and I gave nine pounds odd shillings for the silver teapot John has hrought him up, ? as if the delf one was not good enough for a foot traveller. Pursuing these ideas, Mrs. Taptape, looking bashfully down, said, ? By the by, sir, Mr. Bossolton asked me what name he should put down in his book for the medicines: what would y...