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Indlæser... Redskins and Colonists: Or, a Boy's Adventures in the Early Days of Virginia (1892)af G. A. Henty
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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 II William Burton did not stay after the first two months at his brother's house. I will take a lodging near, he said, and drop in often, John; but I have so long been a Bohemian that I like to go where I wish of my own free will, and to drop into a theater occasionally. After being thirty years, alone, one cannot expect to be able to settle down into altogether domestic ways immediately. This time John offered no opposition. He thought his brother's wish was but reasonable; and he himself felt that an evening alone by himself with his books would be pleasant, and that when he had once heard all his brother's stories he should find it more dull sitting alone with him evening after evening, trying to keep up a conversation, than being by himself. Another thing was that William was an inveterate smoker, while he himself had given up the practice altogether when he left the sea, and had now a positive objection to the smell of tobacco. Robert returned for the third time from a voyage a year after his uncle's arrival, and his father then broached to him the idea he had formed of taking William into the firm. I should not ke to do it without consulting you, Robert. I have more reasons than one for wishing it. In the first place, it is hard on him that I should have inherited my father's business and property, while his name was not so much as mentioned in the will. My father never forgave his running away, and would never allow his name to be as much as mentioned; and as years went on and he never heard from him, he was, I believe, convinced that William was dead. Of course, had he remained here he would have shared with me in the business and property. I don't say that he wasn't wrong to run away, but I think that he has paid much heavier for it than he d... No library descriptions found. |
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