Raffle for a Wife (Classic Reprint)
Author | : Thomas Low Nichols |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 2016-08-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781333268091 |
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Excerpt from Raffle for a Wife Mr. Jona an Hallett was a very good specimen of an American merchant. Shrewd, enterprising, careful, and always attentive to his business, he had year by year made money, and was very well able at this time, to retire from business. But for what purpose Business had become a habit, a necessity. What had been first his duty, and then his interest, was now a pleasure. He had tried it. Went for three weeks to a fashionable watering place, to enjoy himself, and got bored to death. Never, since he was first married had he seen so happy 9. Mo ment, as when he got back to his counting-house again, and commenced looking over his ledger. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.