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Marjorie (Hardcover)
Justin Huntly McCarthy
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R1,348
Discovery Miles 13 480
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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If I Were King (Hardcover)
Justin Huntly McCarthy; Edited by 1stworld Library
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R584
Discovery Miles 5 840
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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In the dark main room of the Fircone Tavern the warm June air
seemed to have lost all its delicacy, like a degraded angel. It was
sodden through and through, as with the lees of wine; it was
stained and shamed with the smells of hams and cheeses; it was
thick and heavy as if with the breaths of all the rogues and all
the vagabonds that had haunted the hostelry from its evil dawn.
Such guttering lights and glimmering flames as lit the place - for
there was a small fire on the wide hearth in spite of the fine
weather - peopled the gloom with fantastic quivering shadows as of
lean fingers that unfolded themselves to filch, or clenched
themselves to stab in the back. But its patrons seemed to like the
place well enough in spite of its miasma, and Master Robin Turgis,
the fat landlord, drowsy with his own wine and dripping from the
heat, surveyed them complacently, and wallowed as it were in the
rattle and clink of mug and can, the full-throated laughter and the
shrill chatter, crisply emphasized by oaths, which assured him of
the Fircone's popularity with its intimates. Master Robin's
intelligence was limited; his wit was simple; the processes of his
mind moved easily along the lines of least resistance.
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