The Black Diamond 1936 Classic Reprint

Author : Hain Friswell
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ISBN 13 : 9781330803547
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Diamonds and Spades written by Hain Friswell and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Diamonds and Spades: A Story of Two Lives The people most concerned were the Marquis of Silverspoon and his young wife. I should, in duty bound, have placed the lady first in a little affair of this kind, but then, as my Lord Marquis only married the young lady with the direct purpose of having heirs male, I think his lordship has a right to the precedence. It was he who had sent a notice to the Morning Post - the notice that made the Hon. Tom Ingot, his lordship's nephew, and heir presumptive to his estates and title - swear like a bargeman, and declare in his club that he did not believe it, and that the "infernal" editor had been hoaxing him. It was the Marquis who had ordered the house in Curzon Street to be listed, not in the army, but round its doors, and to be kept as still as the residence of a church mouse, which, I presume, must be the church itself. He it was, also, who had ordered the street to be covered from end to end with straw; and who had issued, by the mouths of his footmen, orders to the police for the summary expulsion of all organ boys, Punches, tumblers, and street-noises; and also, for the entire extinguishment of all riotous boys, who, sometimes forgetting themselves, did dare to shout, whistle, or sing in that aristocratic quartier. In consequence of these orders the place was as silent as a tomb; within and without, not a sound was heard in that house of Ingot. The very valets and footmen were shod with list, and the doctor as he came up the great stone staircase, so thickly carpeted, did not let his boots once creak. 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.