Memoirs of Charley Crofts, Written by Himself

Questo libro di storia potrebbe contenere numerosi refusi e parti di testo mancanti. Solitamente gli acquirenti hanno la possibilita di scaricare gratuitamente una copia scansionata del libro originale (senza refusi) direttamente dall'editore. Il libro e Non illustrato. 1829 edition. Estratto: ...Such exactly were my opinions, and such the state of my finances, when my good host of the Perry Arms sent his head waiter to trouble my honour, stating his regrets, and how very sorry he was to trouble any gentleman, but, having a large bill to pay, &c. &c. Whether it was that my host became alarmed at the extent to which my horses'heads were swelling in his stables, or fearing, as all my faculties were absorbed in the Mesdames Del Caro, that the one of memory might fail me, as far as he was concerned; and that I might one day ride off and allow him to ride after me, I know not--but this I do know, that he took the most effectual means of bringing me to my recollection. I paid my bill, and had one guinea remaining. With a heavy heart I then went for the last time, to the door of my beloved I entered and announced the melancholy tale: I now think it was injudicious--and I would advise any friend of mine who may be placed in similar circumstances, to state to his mistress any other cause for leaving her than want of money. While I still fondly lingered, I thought Rosalie was in an unusual hurry to rehearsal--perhaps it was jealous fancy; at all events, I swore eternal constancy--she did the same, and we parted with a world of sighs. Whether she adhered to her vows as faithfully as I did to mine, I wont pretend to say, for I never saw her after--but I was told (it must have been a vile slander) that she was seen the next day with a grenadier officer, flirting as gaily and looking as happy, as I thought, she should only look whilst I was alongside her. CHAPTER XII. When I had ridden a few miles, and the motion of the horse who felt he was returning home, and the...