Tales and Novels - Volume 01 - Softcover

Edgeworth, Maria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1153690217 ISBN 13: 9781153690218

Verlag: RareBooksClub.com, 2012

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Excerpt: ...little fellow; we'll all go together to hear the Jew's examination: you shall go with me in my coach to Bow-street," said Alderman Holloway. In the midst of their bustle, the poor stage-coachman, who had waited with uncommon patience in the hope that Alderman Holloway would at last recollect him, pressed forward, and petitioned to be paid his five guineas for the lost parcel.-"I have lost my place already," said he, "and the little goods I have will be seized this day, for the value of that unlucky parcel, master." The alderman put his hand slowly into his purse; but just when he had pulled out five guineas, a servant came into the room, to inform Dr. B. that a sailor was waiting in the hall, who desired to speak, directly, about something of consequence, to the stage-coachman. Dr. B., who imagined that the sailor might have something to do with the business in question, ordered that he might be shown into the room. "I wants one Gregory Giles, a stage-coachman, if such a one be here amongst ye, gentlefolks, and nobody else," cried the sailor, producing a parcel, wrapped up in brown paper. "It's my very parcel!" exclaimed the stage-coachman. "I am Gregory Giles! God bless your honest heart!-Where did ye find it?-Give it me!" The sailor said he had found it in a dry ditch on the Bath road, a little beyond the first turnpike, going out of town; that he had inquired at the turnpike-house; had heard that the stage had been overturned a few days before, and that a parcel had been lost, about which the coachman had been in great trouble; that he had gone directly to the inn where the coach put up; had traced the coachman from place to place; and was heartily glad he had found him at last. "Thank'ee, with all my heart," said the coachman, "for all the trouble you've been at; and here's the crown reward that I offered for it, and my thanks into the bargain." "No, no," said the honest sailor, pushing back the money; "I won't take any thing from a poor...

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• Verlag: RareBooksClub.com
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1153690217
• ISBN 13: 9781153690218
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 154