Name: All but Lost: A Novel Vol 3
Author: G. A. Henty
ISBN: 978-1590870228

All but Lost: A Novel Vol 3

By G. A. Henty 12 Nov, 2019

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Excerpt........Fred Bingham was now rather an important person in his way. He had a large number of works in hand; he was contractor for miles of sewers in and around London. He was building a nobleman’s mansion in Sussex, and a large church in Birmingham. He had a pier in hand down in Cornwall and a railway in Durham. Altogether he appeared to be a flourishing man. People who met him casually, spoke of him as an extremely pushing, sharp young fellow, with a pleasant manner; men who met him in business said he was a cute fellow, but hard, sir, hard as nails. Anyone who had seen him at home, as his wife and his servants saw him, knew him for a morose and irritable tyrant. Not that he had not his pleasant moments, when he would jest with his wife, and speak jokingly to the servants, and be for a short time pleasant and apparently light-hearted, but the slightest thing would bring the cloud over his face, and his sharp voice would say the most bitter things to everyone around him, regardless of who heard him. His wife was greatly changed since he married her; never actually pretty, there had yet been a trusting kindliness in her face, and under happier auspices, the poor little heiress might have blossomed out into a very bright little flower. But now the bud had closed upon itself as if stricken with the touch of a bitter March wind, and she was a silent, timid woman. Less

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