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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XII The date of the sale had come and gone. Nothing had issued from all the excitement and all the meetings. The Town would not interfere; the Hill was not ready with any definite plan of action. It was as though after opening the campaign with energy, the commander-in-chief and his generals, when the day of battle came, had no available force to put into the field. One might doubt if a single man went up from Medford to see what happened in the Mart, London, at 3 P.m. precisely. Medford read in the newspapers of the catastrophe. The property had been offered in one lot, and knocked down for thirty-seven thousand pounds. Was this a real bid, or merely the auctioneers buying in for the owners? No one in Medford seemed to know for certain, but the London newspapers said it was a sale. Local rumour added that Sir John--still active--had heard from Messrs. Firmin, who confirmed the newspaper reports. The auctioneer's hammer had dealt a genuine knockdown blow; but the purchase was not yet completed. Until the completion of the purchase the solicitors must withhold the purchaser's name. One afternoon of late August, Mr. Jack Vincent and a friend discussed the position of affairs, and nothing could better illustrate the frivolity, apathy, or cynical composure of the younger generation than their words and their manner in the presence of a nearly consummated disaster. They were in the big dining-room of the Hill House. Luncheon was done. Short, the butler, with Henry and Thomas, the two footmen, in their brown liveries and canary collars, was clearing the table. Peace, repletion, drowsiness were in the warm air. Short, putting things away in the great sideboard, and the footmen, stacking glasses and plates on a wooden tray, moved languidly as dreamers who...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1458954900
- ISBN 13 9781458954909
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages106
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