Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Curbside pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Within an Inch of His Life

Within an Inch of His Life

Gaboriau, Emile

Paperback

Literary Fiction

Currently unavailable to order

ISBN13: 9798685861337
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 29 2021
Pages: 424
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.86 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Book Excerpt: ...but too often during the war with the Germans, and then again during the reign of the Commune. Therefore M. Seneschal asked, --Is it a serious fire?Serious! exclaimed the peasant. How could it be otherwise with such a wind as this, --a wind that would blow off the horns of our oxen.Hm! uttered the mayor again. Hm, hm!It was not exactly the first time, since he was mayor of Sauveterre, that he was thus roused by a peasant, who came and cried under his window, Help! Fire, fire!At first, filled with compassion, he had hastily called out the firemen, put himself at their head, and hurried to the fire.And when they reached it, out of breath, and perspiring, after having made two or three miles at double-quick, they found what? A wretched heap of straw, worth about ten dollars, and almost consumed by the fire. They had had their trouble for nothing.The peasants in the neighborhood had cried, Wolf! so often, when there was no reason for it, that, even when the wolf really was.

15 different editions

Also available

Also in

Literary Fiction

View All