The Counterstroke (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Pratt, Ambrose) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Counterstroke At a late hour on a certain cold night in February, in the year 1900, three gentlemen stood near an old padlocked iron gateway at the northern end of Finchley Road, London. They had arrived at that common point by separate conveyances, and it was easy to discover that they were strangers to each other, for although all stood within a circle whose diameter did not exceed three yards, and although the night was dark and the road otherwise utterly deserted, the face of each, dimly discernible by the light of a neighbouring street lamp, wore an air of blank unconsciousness of all companionship. The gentleman nearest the gate, and the tallest of the three, was wrapped in a heavy fur greatcoat His clean-shaven face - strong, impassive, and good to look upon - was of a type unmistakably English, and he wore an eyeglass that appeared to have become cemented into its position. The second gentleman was of a short but sturdy build, and his bristling moustache, whose yellow and stiff-waxed points turned fiercely upwards, proclaimed him of Teutonic origin. He wore an imposing military cloak of foreign cut and manufacture, and his attitude was that of a soldier mounting guard. The third gentleman, whose tightly-fitting black frock coat was shiny and threadbare to the verge of seediness, seemed to be of excessively nervous disposition; he stamped about incessantly, swished often at the darkness with his cane, and sent a fire of impatient glances in all directions from a pair of large and piercing black eyes. He was slightly formed and lithe, active as a panther, never still. 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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