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The Rock Ahead: A Novel. (Vol. 1)

By Edmund Yates

2020-09-15 05:09:08

Brief Extract: It was all right for the bookmakers this time at Brighton: the favourites, against which so much money had been staked, had been beaten, and "dark" horses, scarcely heard of, and backed for nothing, had carried off the principal prizes ... Read more
Brief Extract: It was all right for the bookmakers this time at Brighton: the favourites, against which so much money had been staked, had been beaten, and "dark" horses, scarcely heard of, and backed for nothing, had carried off the principal prizes. So it followed that most of the gentry of the betting-ring, instead of hurrying off to the scene of their next trials of fortune, finding themselves with plenty of money in their pockets, at a pleasant place in lovely weather, made up their minds to remain there during the intervening Saturday and Sunday, and to drop business so far as possible until the Monday morning, when they would speed away by the early express-trains. Less

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File size232.617 KB
Print pages300
PublisherPublic Domain Book
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1354450130
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Edmund Yates
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Edmund Hodgson Yates (3 July 1831 – 20 May 1894) was a British journalist, novelist, and dramatist. He was born in Edinburgh to the actor and theatre manager Frederick Henry Yates and was educate...

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