From the Housetops
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By George Barr McCutcheon 29 Aug, 2019
Extract: Mr. Templeton Thorpe was soon to be married for the second time. Back in 1860, he married a girl of twenty-two, and now in the year 1912, he was taking unto himself another girl of twenty-two. In the interim, he had achieved a grandson whose ... Read more
Extract: Mr. Templeton Thorpe was soon to be married for the second time. Back in 1860, he married a girl of twenty-two, and now in the year 1912, he was taking unto himself another girl of twenty-two. In the interim, he had achieved a grandson whose years were twenty-nine. In his seventy-seventh year he was worth a great many millions of dollars, and for that and no other reason perhaps, one of the newspapers, in commenting on the approaching nuptials, declared that nobody could now deny that he was a philanthropist. Less
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  • 2009-09-21
  • english
  • 978-1407744476
George Barr McCutcheon (July 26, 1866 – October 23, 1928) was an American popular novelist and playwright. His best known works include the series of novels set in Graustark, a fictional East Europe...
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