| Fathers Of Men Contributor(s): Hornung, E. W. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1500679860 ISBN-13: 9781500679866 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $10.69 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1912 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| BISAC Categories: - History - Literary Criticism |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6" W x 9" (0.63 lbs) 208 pages |
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| Publisher Description: The two new boys in Heriot's house had been suitably entertained at his table, and afterwards in his study with bound volumes of Punch. Incidentally they had been encouraged to talk, with the result that one boy had talked too much, while the other shut a stubborn mouth tighter than before. The babbler displayed an exuberant knowledge of contemporary cricket, a more conscious sense of humour, and other little qualities which told their tale. He opened the door for Miss Heriot after dinner, and even thanked her for the evening when it came to an end. His companion, on the other hand, after brooding over Leech and Tenniel with a sombre eye, beat a boorish retreat without a word. Heriot saw the pair to the boys' part of the house. He was filling his pipe when he returned to the medley of books, papers, photographic appliances, foxes' masks, alpen-stocks and venerable oak, that made his study a little room in which it was difficult to sit down and impossible to lounge. His sister, perched upon a coffin-stool, was busy mounting photographs at a worm-eaten bureau. |
