Buffets (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Charles H. Doe

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 133013303X ISBN 13 : 9781330133033

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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The first chapter is omitted because it is prelinunary and to very little purpose. The A uthor.] CHAPTER II. IN WHICH MR. JOHN HOULDWORTHY GIVES A DINNER TO A FEW TWID- DLERS. The Wouter Van Twiller Club, of theS tate of New York and the County and City of New York, to give the full name as it appeared in the act of incorporation, occupied a building on Broadway at the time of which I write. A great, fulllength portrait of the doughty Dutch governor took up nearly the whole of one end of the libraiy, a ileasant room enough, but frequented only by a few old fellows, because it was the only place in the house where the rules forbade smoking. The library was well appointed, but was furnished in a style rather suggestive of knee-breeches and pigtails, too old-fashioned for the tastes of the young men, who, it must be confessed, preferred the fascinations of the card-rooms, or loved better to exercise their biceps in the billiard-rooms upstairs, which were sure to be lively, and hazy with tobacco-smoke at certain hours, varying a little according to the season. The club was made up of men who had money, and moved in good society ;and blackballs were used freely at the monthly meetings. It was computed by a man with a mathematical head, who by some strange freak of fortune had been admitted, that the incomes of the ten leading members were equal in amount to that of Mr. William B. A stor. This is open to doubt, notwithstanding the proverbial veracity of figures ;but it is beyond question that the club numbered some heavy men on its rolls, although, being members of other and stiU more exclusive corporations, they seldom appeared, and so gave the young men the full swing of the place. The name Wouter Van Twiller, although rather imposing in print, on a seal, and at the head of note-paper, was quite too long for ordinary use among these lazy young fellows; and so, b
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 133013303X
• ISBN 13: 9781330133033
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 150
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