To-Morrow Joseph Conrad Author
by Joseph Conrad
2021-04-07 01:58:58
To-Morrow Joseph Conrad Author
by Joseph Conrad
2021-04-07 01:58:58
Excerpt-Seven years before, he had seriously answered, Next month, I think, to the chaffing attempt to secure his custom made by that distinguished local wit, the Colebrook barber, who happened to be sitting insolently in the tap-room of the New Inn ...
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Excerpt-Seven years before, he had seriously answered, Next month, I think, to the chaffing attempt to secure his custom made by that distinguished local wit, the Colebrook barber, who happened to be sitting insolently in the tap-room of the New Inn near the harbour, where the captain had entered to buy an ounce of tobacco. After paying for his purchase with three half-pence extracted from the corner of a handkerchief which he carried in the cuff of his sleeve, Captain Hagberd went out. As soon as the door was shut the barber laughed. The old one and the young one will be strolling arm in arm to get shaved in my place presently. The tailor shall be set to work, and the barber, and the candlestick maker; high old times are coming for Colebrook, they are coming, to be sure. It used to be 'next week,' now it has come to 'next month,' and so on--soon it will be next spring, for all I know.
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