Anthony Trollope:The Saint Pauls magazine Volume 3
- new book ISBN: 9781154270983
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not … More...
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 edition. Excerpt: ... '' She must have gone down one of the areas, I think. But she looked a lady, though an old-fashioned one.'' '' Have you heen dining?'' asked James in a tone of doubtful inquiry. '' No,'' I replied, not suspecting the insinuation; ''I have only just come from the Museum.'' '' Then I advise you to call on your medical man before you go home.'' '' Medical man!'' I returned; ''I have no medical man. What do you mean? I never was better in my life.'' '' I mean that there was no old lady. It was an illusion, and that indicates something wrong. Besides, you did not know mo when I spoke to you.'' '' That is nothing,'' I returned. ''I had just taken off my spectacles, and without them I shouldn''t know my own father.'' '' How was it you saw the old lady, then?'' The affair was growing serious under my friend''s cross-questioning. I did not at all like the idea of his supposing me subject to hallucinations. So I answered, with a laugh, ''Ah! to bo sure, that explains it. I am so blind without my spectacles, that I shouldn''t know an old lady from a big dog.'' '' There was no big dog,'' said Hetheridge, shaking his head, as the fact for the first time dawned upon me that, although I had seen the old lady clearly enough to make a sketch of her, even to the features of her careworn, eager old face, I had not been able to recognise the well-known countenance of James Hetheridge. '' That''s what comes of reading till the optic nerve is weakened,'' he went on. ''You will cause yourself serious injury if you do not pull up in time. I''ll tell you what; I''m going home next week,--will you go with mo?'' '' You are very kind,'' I answered, not altogether rejecting the proposal, for I felt that a little change to the country would be pleasant, and I was quite my own master. For I... Anthony Trollope, Books, History, The Saint Pauls magazine Volume 3 Books>History, General Books LLC<
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Anthony Trollope:The Saint Pauls magazine Volume 3
- new book ISBN: 9781154270983
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not … More...
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 edition. Excerpt: ... '' She must have gone down one of the areas, I think. But she looked a lady, though an old-fashioned one.'' '' Have you heen dining?'' asked James in a tone of doubtful inquiry. '' No,'' I replied, not suspecting the insinuation; ''I have only just come from the Museum.'' '' Then I advise you to call on your medical man before you go home.'' '' Medical man!'' I returned; ''I have no medical man. What do you mean? I never was better in my life.'' '' I mean that there was no old lady. It was an illusion, and that indicates something wrong. Besides, you did not know mo when I spoke to you.'' '' That is nothing,'' I returned. ''I had just taken off my spectacles, and without them I shouldn''t know my own father.'' '' How was it you saw the old lady, then?'' The affair was growing serious under my friend''s cross-questioning. I did not at all like the idea of his supposing me subject to hallucinations. So I answered, with a laugh, ''Ah! to bo sure, that explains it. I am so blind without my spectacles, that I shouldn''t know an old lady from a big dog.'' '' There was no big dog,'' said Hetheridge, shaking his head, as the fact for the first time dawned upon me that, although I had seen the old lady clearly enough to make a sketch of her, even to the features of her careworn, eager old face, I had not been able to recognise the well-known countenance of James Hetheridge. '' That''s what comes of reading till the optic nerve is weakened,'' he went on. ''You will cause yourself serious injury if you do not pull up in time. I''ll tell you what; I''m going home next week,--will you go with mo?'' '' You are very kind,'' I answered, not altogether rejecting the proposal, for I felt that a little change to the country would be pleasant, and I was quite my own master. For I... Anthony Trollope, Books, History, The Saint Pauls magazine Volume 3 Books>History <
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