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David Poindexter's Disappearance, and Other Tales

By Julian Hawthorne

2020-06-24 05:34:30

Brief Extract: There was a dramatic instinct in David, as in many eloquent men of impressionable temperament, which caused him every now and then to look upon all that was occurring as a sort of play and to resolve to act his part in a telling and pi ... Read more
Brief Extract: There was a dramatic instinct in David, as in many eloquent men of impressionable temperament, which caused him every now and then to look upon all that was occurring as a sort of play and to resolve to act his part in a telling and picturesque manner. On that Saturday afternoon, he had an interview with the late Mr. Lambert's lawyers, and they were struck by his calm, lofty, and indifferent bearing. He seemed to regard worldly prosperity as a thing beneath him, yet to feel in a half-impatient way the responsibility which the control of wealth forced upon him. Less

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File size130.271 KB
Print pages98
PublisherPublic Domain Book
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1169238282
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Julian Hawthorne
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Julian Hawthorne was the son of Nathaniel Hawthorne. He wrote poetry, novels, non-fiction, a series of crime novels based on the memoirs of New York's Inspector Byrnes, and edited several collections ...

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