Sketches And Travels In London Novels By Eminent Hands Character Sketches

Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780259198406
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (984 download)

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Download or read book Sketches and Travels in London written by William Makepeace Thackeray and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-10 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Sketches and Travels in London: To Which Are Added Novels by Eminent Hands and Character Sketches I r is with the greatest satisfaction my dear Robert, that I have you as a neighbour within a couple of miles of me and that I have seen you established comfortably in your chambers in fig-tree Court. The situation is not cheerful, it is true; and to clamber up three pairs of black creaking stairs, is an exercise not pleasant to a man who never cared for ascending mountains. Nor did the performance of the young barrister who lives under you and it appears plays pretty constantly upon the French horn give me any great pleasure, as I sate and partook of luncheon in your rooms. Your female attendant or laundress too struck me from her personal appearance to be a lady addicted to the use of ardent spirits; and the smell of tobacco which you say some old college friends of yours had partaken on the night previous was I must say, not pleasant in the chambers, and I even thought might he remarked as fingering in your own morning-coat. However I am an old fellow. The use of cigars has come in since my time (and, I must own, is adopted by many people of the first fashion. 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.