The Way of All Flesh - Samuel Butler - Libros -  - 9798697530276 - 25 de enero de 2021
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The Way of All Flesh

Book Excerpt: ...o my mother a year or two before she died, but we could never make it as she did. When we were children she used sometimes to send her respects to my mother, and ask leave for us to come and take tea with her. Right well she used to ply us. As for her temper, we never met such a delightful old lady in our lives; whatever Mr Pontifex may have had to put up with, we had no cause for complaint, and then Mr Pontifex would play to us upon the organ, and we would stand round him open-mouthed and think him the most wonderfully clever man that ever was born, except of course our papa. Mrs Pontifex had no sense of humour, at least I can call to mind no signs of this, but her husband had plenty of fun in him, though few would have guessed it from his appearance. I remember my father once sent me down to his workship to get some glue, and I happened to come when old Pontifex was in the act of scolding his boy. He had got the lad--a pudding-headed fellow--by the ear and was saying, "What? Lost again--smothered o...

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Publicado 25 de enero de 2021
ISBN13 9798697530276
Páginas 396
Dimensiones 152 × 229 × 21 mm   ·   526 g
Lengua Inglés  

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