Eli's Children; The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family
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By George Manville Fenn 19 Nov, 2019
“Eh? What?” “I say, why don’t you give it up quietly?” “Speak up; I’m a little hard of hearing.” “I say, why don’t you give it up quietly?” roared the speaker to a little bent old man, with a weak, thin, piping voice, a ... Read more
“Eh? What?” “I say, why don’t you give it up quietly?” “Speak up; I’m a little hard of hearing.” “I say, why don’t you give it up quietly?” roared the speaker to a little bent old man, with a weak, thin, piping voice, and a sharp look that gave him somewhat the air of a very attenuated sparrow in a severe frost, his shrunken legs, in tight yellow leather leggings, seeming to help the idea. “Don’t shout at me like that, Master Portlock. I arn’t deaf, only a trifle hard of hearing when I’ve got a cowd—just a trifle, you know.” Less
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George Manville Fenn was a prolific English novelist, journalist, editor and educationalist. Many of his novels were written for young adults. His final book was a biography of his fellow writer for j...
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