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A House to Let by Wilkie Collins (World Cultural Heritage Library)
A House to Let by Wilkie Collins - World Cultural Heritage Library
Author: Wilkie Collins
I had been living at Tunbridge Wells and nowhere else, going on for ten years, when my medical man-very clever in his profession, and the prettiest player I ever saw in my life of a hand at Long Whist, which was a noble and a princely game before Short was heard of-said to me, one day, as he sat feeling my pulse on the actual sofa which ...  more » -Good gracious, goodness gracious, Doctor Towers!- says I, quite startled at the man, for he was so christened himself: -don-t talk as if you were alluding to people-s names; but say what you mean.- -I mean, my dear ma-am, that we want a little change of air and scene.- -Bless the man!- said I; -does he mean we or me!- -I mean you, ma-am.- -Then Lard forgive you, Doctor Towers,- I said; -why don-t you get into a habit of expressing yourself in a

straightforward manner, like a loyal subject of our gracious Queen Victoria, and a member of the Church of England?- Towers laughed, as he generally does when he has fidgetted me into any of my impatient ways-one of my states, as I call them-and then he began,-

ISBN-13: 9781433097348
ISBN-10: 1433097346
Publication Date: 3/3/2009
Pages: 150
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Publisher: Intl Business Pubns USA
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