Strange Secrets (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Doyle, A. Conan) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Strange Secrets Home again! Oh, the joy of it, after five years across the seas! It is worth going round the world, as I had done, if only for the pleasure of coming back to your starting-point I never appreciated old Aunt Marianne till after she died, and I never knew how fond I was of Eversfold till absence had estranged us. I had been wild to leave it, but now on my return journey, from Paris onwards, I felt consumed by a longing for the green lanes, copses, furze commons of Surrey. Four interminable hours must I wait in London for the Cross Hills train. Whilst impatiently pacing the Strand I stumbled on an acquaintance recently picked up abroad. I hesitated before speaking, for though the man and his family had been cordiality itself to me in Rome, I knew the difference different longitude makes sometimes. Not for jovial, hospitable old Matthew Parker, Esq. His-first question now was the last he had put to me before parting on the Piazza di Spagna: "When are you coming to Swalecliffe? The workmen are out at last, and we´re nice and snug. Tuesdays our house-warming. You promised to be there. My ladies will never forgive me if I let you off" "I´m homeward bound now, to my mother," I replied, "but I´ll run down for the ball." What´s two hundred miles to a man who has just put twenty thousand behind him? "Here´s my card - Swalecliffe Castle. Book to Wood End, Great Western line. Don´t forget" I pocketed the card and speedily forgot all about him, whirling towards Eversfold. 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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