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The Great Tontine

Henry Hawley Smart

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Description:Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. MR. CARBUCKLE ENSNARES ANOTHER VICTIM. In this same June, 1860, two persons stood in the Jardin des Plantes at Avranches watching the sun sink beneath the bay of St. Michel. His dying rays lit up the grim old rock, altar to so many creeds, and, if tradition tells true, once dedicated to himself. The glittering waters of the bay, the grey old mass surrounded by a faint halo of mist, and all the rich, thickly-wooded champagne country lying between the hill of Avranches and the setting luminary, made a picture wondrous fair to gaze upon. If its climate be somewhat sharp in winter-time, the elevation at which it standsabove the sea level insures a certain amount of cool air in the summer. Hot it can be in those days, undoubtedly, and an apathy quite equal to the occasion then pervades it. Like most French country towns, nobody seems to kave anything particular to do, and not the slightest inclination to do it if they had. A very sleepy little town, with no railway coming within forty miles of it. A little town that only wakes from its slumbers once a year, when it is positively overwhelmed by the rush of business occasioned by its horse fair; when, amidst frantic gesticulation, and much vociferation of those strange anathemas that excited Frenchmen use, scores of the big, heavy Norman horses change hands. There is a sort of festive corollary to this annual disturbance in the race-meeting which follows, when the curious phenomenon, to our insular eyes, of steeple-chasing in mid-summer is exhibited. There is a race ball at such times, and rumoursare rife that the whist of the English, and the ecarte at the French cercles, for modest stakes, have been abandoned for reckless baccarat. But, take it all the year round, it is a quiet, sleepy little place, where one may live econom...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Great Tontine. To get started finding The Great Tontine, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: General Books

Release: 2012

ISBN: 1458918157

Description: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. MR. CARBUCKLE ENSNARES ANOTHER VICTIM. In this same June, 1860, two persons stood in the Jardin des Plantes at Avranches watching the sun sink beneath the bay of St. Michel. His dying rays lit up the grim old rock, altar to so many creeds, and, if tradition tells true, once dedicated to himself. The glittering waters of the bay, the grey old mass surrounded by a faint halo of mist, and all the rich, thickly-wooded champagne country lying between the hill of Avranches and the setting luminary, made a picture wondrous fair to gaze upon. If its climate be somewhat sharp in winter-time, the elevation at which it standsabove the sea level insures a certain amount of cool air in the summer. Hot it can be in those days, undoubtedly, and an apathy quite equal to the occasion then pervades it. Like most French country towns, nobody seems to kave anything particular to do, and not the slightest inclination to do it if they had. A very sleepy little town, with no railway coming within forty miles of it. A little town that only wakes from its slumbers once a year, when it is positively overwhelmed by the rush of business occasioned by its horse fair; when, amidst frantic gesticulation, and much vociferation of those strange anathemas that excited Frenchmen use, scores of the big, heavy Norman horses change hands. There is a sort of festive corollary to this annual disturbance in the race-meeting which follows, when the curious phenomenon, to our insular eyes, of steeple-chasing in mid-summer is exhibited. There is a race ball at such times, and rumoursare rife that the whist of the English, and the ecarte at the French cercles, for modest stakes, have been abandoned for reckless baccarat. But, take it all the year round, it is a quiet, sleepy little place, where one may live econom...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Great Tontine. To get started finding The Great Tontine, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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