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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Falk

Falk

Conrad, Joseph

Paperback

Classic Fiction

ISBN10: 1480207012
ISBN13: 9781480207011
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Oct 29 2012
Pages: 70
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.17 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Excerpt: ...The vestiges of a paper collar encircled his neck. He looked at us with a grave, swaying surprise. Where do you come from? he asked. My heart sank. How could I have been stupid enough to waste energy and time for this? But having already gone so far I approached a little nearer and declared the purpose of my visit. He would have to come at once with me, sleep on board my ship, and to-morrow, with the first of the ebb, he would give me his assistance in getting my ship down to the sea, without steam. A six-hundred-ton barque, drawing nine feet aft. I proposed to give him eighteen dollars for his local knowledge; and all the time I was speaking he kept on considering attentively the various aspects of the banana, holding first one side up to his eye, then the other. You've forgotten to apologise, he said at last with extreme precision. Not being a gentleman yourself, you don't know apparently when you intrude upon a gentleman. I am one. I wish you to understand that when I am in funds I don't work, and now. I would have pronounced him perfectly sober hadn't he paused in great concern to try and brush a hole off the knee of his trousers. I have money

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