The Return of the Prodigal (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

May Sinclair

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1331588863 ISBN 13 : 9781331588863

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2019

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Return of the Prodigal

Then it would occur to you that he must have been sitting still for a considerable period. He was not stout - you might even have called him slender; but the muscles about his cheeks and chin hung a little loose from the bony framework, and his figure, shapely enough when he stood upright, yielded in a sitting pos ture to the pressure of the railway cushions. That in dicated muscular tissue, once developed by outdoor exercise, and subsequently deteriorated by sedentary pursuits. The lines on his forehead suggested that he was now a brain-worker of sorts.

Other lines showed plainly that, though his acces sories were new, the man, unlike his portmanteau, had knocked about the world, and had got a good deal damaged in the process. The fingers of the left hand were wanting. You argued, then, that he had changed his trade more than once; while from the presence of two vertical creases on either side of a large and rather fleshy mouth, worn as it were by the pull of a bit, you further inferred that the energy he must have displayed somewhere was a thing of will rather than of temperament. He was a paradox, a rolling stone that had unaccountably contrived to gather moss.

And then you fell to wondering how so magnificently mossy a person came to be traveling third-class in his native country.

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Tmm OF THE PRODIGAL yI Stephen K. Lbppbb, Pork-P acking Prince, from Chicago, U. S. A., by White Star Line, for Liverpool. Such was the annou Dcement with which the Chicago Central Advertiser made beautiful its list of arrimls ddepartures. -j ., It was not exactly a definition of him. Tobe sun; if you had caut sight of him anywhere d6wn lie sumptuous vista of the first-class sleeping-saloon of the New York and Chicago Express, you woi Udhave judged it adequate and inquired no more. You might even have put him down for a Yankee. -tf. But if, following him on tiiis side of the A tlantic, you had found yourself boxed up with him in a thirdclass compartment on the London and North-western Railway, your curiosity would have been aroused. The first thing you would have noticed was that everything about him, from his gray traveling hat to the gold monogram on his portmanteau, was brilliantly and conspicuously new. Accompanied by a lady, it would have suggested matrimony and the grand tour. But there was nothing else to distract you from him. He let himself be looked at; he sat there in his comer seat, superbly, opulently st Ul. And somehow it dawned on you that, in spite of some Americanisms he let fall, he was not, and never could have been, aY
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331588863
• ISBN 13: 9781331588863
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 379
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