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Success and How He Won It

Success and How He Won It

Werner, E.

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ISBN10: 1150708832
ISBN13: 9781150708831
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.21 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892. Excerpt: ... Who said so? broke in Ulric, looking at him darkly. Her ladyship. 'A wild untamed element, ' she said, and the description was most striking, most apt. Hartmann--The young man ventured a little nearer his companion, but timidly still, and approaching him by degrees. Hartmann, I could forgive you everything, even what you said just now, but the one thing I cannot forgive is your conduct to her. Have you alone no eyes for her beauty and grace, which disarm the very roughest of your comrades, that you should avoid the sight of her, as if it would bring you ill-luck? If her carriage appears in the distance, you turn round and get out of the way; if she rides by, you step into the house nearest at hand, and I warrant, you make that long round every day past the Director's house, for no other reason than that you might meet her once at the park-gates and be obliged to take off your cap to her. Oh, this stubborn, bitter class-hatred, which spares not even women! I repeat it to you, Hartmann, you are a man greatly to be feared. Ulric was silent. Contrary to his wont, he submitted to these reproaches without answering a syllable, and by so doing, he strengthened Wilberg in the delusion that his arguments had at last produced some effect. Encouraged by this, he began again, But to return to the real matter in hand. The pocket-handkerchief How should I know where the thing is? interrupted Ulric, roughly. It is lost, or Martha may have given it back. How should I know! Wilberg was just going to launch out into indignation at the indifference with which an object, in his eyes of such priceless worth, was treated, when he suddenly perceived Martha standing before her uncle's house. He shot down on her like a hawk, and began to question her as to where the sa...

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