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George Gissing
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New Grub Street (1891) |
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English |
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Paperback |
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146 |
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2009-08-15 |
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021751426X |
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General Books LLC |
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0.49 pounds |
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6.0 x 9.0 x 0.34 inches |
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER XXVII THE LONELY MAN A Touch of congestion in the right lung was a warning to Eeardon that his half-year of insufficient food and general waste of strength would make the coming winter a hard time for him, worse probably than the last. Biffen, responding in person to the summons, found him in bed, waited upon by a gaunt, dry, sententious woman of sixty—not the landlady, but a lodger who was glad to earn one meal a day by any means that offered. ' It wouldn't be very nice to die here, would it ?' said the sufferer, with a laugh which was cut short by a cough. ' One would like a comfortable room, at least. Why, I don't know. I dreamt last night that I was in a ship that had struck something and was going down; and it wasn't the thought of death that most disturbed me, but a horror of being plunged in the icy water. In fact, I have had just the same feelingon shipboard. I remember waking up midway between Corfu and Brindisi, on that shaky tub of a Greek boat; we were rolling a good deal, and I heard a sort of alarmed rush and shouting up on deck. It was so warm and comfortable in the berth, and I thought with intolerable horror of the possibility of sousing into the black depths.' 'Don't talk, my boy,' advised Biffen. 'Let me read you the new chapter of " Mr. Bailey." It may induce a refreshing slumber.' Reardon was away from his duties for a week; he returned to them with a feeling.of extreme shakiness, an indisposition to exert himself, and a complete disregard of the course that events were taking. It was fortunate that he had kept aside that small store of money designed for emergencies; he was able to draw on it now to pay his doctor, and provide himself with better nourishment than usual. He purchased new boots, too, and some articles of warm clothing of ...
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