| Allan Quatermain Contributor(s): Haggard, H. Rider (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798649272971 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $18.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2020 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Action & Adventure - Fiction | Romance - Fantasy |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.87 lbs) 266 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Book Excerpteeps a bright look-out at night, or, in vulgar English, a sharp fellow who is not to be taken in.Then there was Good, who is not like either of us, being short, dark, stout -- very stout -- with twinkling black eyes, in one of which an eyeglass is everlastingly fixed. I say stout, but it is a mild term; I regret to state that of late years Good has been running to fat in a most disgraceful way. Sir Henry tells him that it comes from idleness and over-feeding, and Good does not like it at all, though he cannot deny it.We sat for a while, and then I got a match and lit the lamp that stood ready on the table, for the half-light began to grow dreary, as it is apt to do when one has a short week ago buried the hope of one's life. Next, I opened a cupboard in the wainscoting and got a bottle of whisky and some tumblers and water. I always like to do these things for myself: it is irritating to me to have somebody continually at my elbow, as though I were an eighteen-month-old baby... |
