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Some Rambling Notes Of An Idle Excursion - 9781986013000
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Some Rambling Notes Of An Idle Excursion
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Extract: I. All the journeyings I had ever done had been purely in the way of business. The pleasant May weather suggested a novelty namely, a trip for pure recreation, the bread-and-butter element left out. The Reverend said he would go, too; a good man, one of the best of men, although a clergyman. By eleven at night we were in New Haven and on board the New York boat. We bought our tickets, and then went wandering around here and there, in the solid comfort of being free and idle, and of putting distance between ourselves and the mails and telegraphs. After a while I went to my stateroom and undressed, but the night was too enticing for bed. We were moving down the bay now, and it was pleasant to stand at the window and take the cool night breeze and watch the gliding lights on shore. Presently, two elderly men sat down under that window and began a conversation. Their talk was properly no business of mine, yet I was feeling friendly toward the world and willing to be entertained. I soon gathered that they were brothers, that they were from a small Connecticut village, and that the matter in hand concerned the cemetery. Said one: .....
| Author: Mark Twain, G-Ph Ballin |
| Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Publication Date: Dec 05, 2016 |
| Number of Pages: 70 pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback |
| ISBN-10: 1540848086 |
| ISBN-13: 9781540848086 |
Some Rambling Notes Of An Idle Excursion
$11.15
Extract: I. All the journeyings I had ever done had been purely in the way of business. The pleasant May weather suggested a novelty namely, a trip for pure recreation, the bread-and-butter element left out. The Reverend said he would go, too; a good man, one of the best of men, although a clergyman. By eleven at night we were in New Haven and on board the New York boat. We bought our tickets, and then went wandering around here and there, in the solid comfort of being free and idle, and of putting distance between ourselves and the mails and telegraphs. After a while I went to my stateroom and undressed, but the night was too enticing for bed. We were moving down the bay now, and it was pleasant to stand at the window and take the cool night breeze and watch the gliding lights on shore. Presently, two elderly men sat down under that window and began a conversation. Their talk was properly no business of mine, yet I was feeling friendly toward the world and willing to be entertained. I soon gathered that they were brothers, that they were from a small Connecticut village, and that the matter in hand concerned the cemetery. Said one: .....
| Author: Mark Twain, G-Ph Ballin |
| Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Publication Date: Dec 05, 2016 |
| Number of Pages: 70 pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback |
| ISBN-10: 1540848086 |
| ISBN-13: 9781540848086 |
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