The Morgesons
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ISBN10: 154471162X
ISBN13: 9781544711621
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Mar 25 2017
Pages: 290
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781544711621
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Mar 25 2017
Pages: 290
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
When my aunt said this I was climbing a chest of drawers, by its knobs, in order to reach the book-shelves above it, where my favorite work, The Northern Regions, was kept, together with Baxter's Saints' Rest, and other volumes of that sort, belonging to my mother; and those my father bought for his own reading, and which I liked, though I only caught a glimpse of their meaning by strenuous study. To this day Sheridan's Comedies, Sterne's Sentimental Journey, and Captain Cook's Voyages are so mixed up in my remembrance that I am still uncertain whether it was Sterne who ate baked dog with Maria, or Sheridan who wept over a dead ass in the Sandwich Islands. After I had made a dash at and captured my book, I seated myself with difficulty on the edge of the chest of drawers, and was soon lost in an Esquimaux hut. Presently, in crossing my feet, my shoes, which were large, dropped on the painted floor with a loud noise. I looked at my aunt; her regards were still fixed upon me, but they did not interfere with her occupation of knitting; neither did they interrupt her habit of chewing cloves, flagroot, or grains of rice. If these articles were not at hand, she chewed a small chip.
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