Good Stories (Classic Reprint)
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Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Reade, Charles) |
Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Good Stories I am now seventy, and learning something every day, especially my ignorance. But fifty-two years ago I knew everything, or nearly: I had finished my education. I knew a little Greek and Latin, a very little vernacular, a little mathematics, and a little war: could march a thousand men into a field, and even out of it again, - on paper. So I left Paris, and went home to rest on my oars. Months rolled on; I still rested on my oars, - rested on them so industriously that at last my mother, a very superior woman, took fright at my assiduous inactivity, and bundled me out of the boat. She had an uncle who loved her, and, indeed, had reared her as a child. She wrote to him, concealing neither her maternal pride nor her maternal anxieties. He replied, "Send the boy here, and if he is anything like you, he shall be my son and successor." He was a notary, and had a good business. In due course the diligence landed me far from home, at a town in Provence. A boy and an ass were waiting for me. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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