New Arabian Nights - Robert Louis Stevenson - Libros -  - 9798687368056 - 29 de enero de 2021
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New Arabian Nights

Book Excerpt: ...d - some refusing, some accepting, the favours of this vagabond hospitality, and the young man himself eating each rejected tart. On leaving the third saloon the young man counted his store. There were but nine remaining, three in one tray and six in the other."Gentlemen," said he, addressing himself to his two new followers, "I am unwilling to delay your supper. I am positively sure you must be hungry. I feel that I owe you a special consideration. And on this great day for me, when I am closing a career of folly by my most conspicuously silly action, I wish to behave handsomely to all who give me countenance. Gentlemen, you shall wait no longer. Although my constitution is shattered by previous excesses, at the risk of my life I liquidate the suspensory condition."With these words he crushed the nine remaining tarts into his mouth, and swallowed them at a single movement each. Then, turning to the commissionaires, he gave them a couple of sovereigns."I have to thank you," said...

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Publicado 29 de enero de 2021
ISBN13 9798687368056
Páginas 258
Dimensiones 152 × 229 × 14 mm   ·   349 g
Lengua Inglés  

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