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User Review - nursewidener - LibraryThingI just hope terriorist get any ideas from this book. Although it got heavy with the technical aspects this was a great thriller that I hope never come to be. Enjoy the read, but not in the dark :) Read full review
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Page 41 - You must come and see me again, Mr. Granger," Mrs. Hartly said from the door. "Come to the Buckingham and see how we're getting on with your friend's play. We must have a good long talk if you're to get my local colour, as Mr. Fox calls it." " To gild refined gold ; to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet ——* I quoted banally.
Page 196 - came to our ears from groups that passed us. A very old man with a nose that almost touched his thick lips, was saying to another of the same type: " Shot himself . . . through the left temple
Page 93 - wondered what it meant, what club had struck the wheel of my fortune and whirled it into this astounding attitude. " Of course you must think about it," he said. " I don't know," I muttered; " the idea is so new. It's so little in my line. I don't know what I should make of it.
Page 66 - whole silly farrago, in fact. I reasoned with myself—that I was tired, out of trim, and so on, that I was in a fit state to be at the mercy of any nightmare. I plunged into Southampton Row. There was safety in the contact with the crowd, in jostling, in being jostled.
Page 83 - our aunt would back me up. She'd have to. My money has been reviving the glories of the Grangers. You can see, they've been regilding the gate." I looked almost involuntarily at the tall iron gates through which she had passed into my view. It was true enough—some of the scroll work was radiant with new gold.
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| Title | The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story |
| Authors | Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford |
| Publisher | McClure, Phillips & Company, 1901 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 13 Mar 2006 |
| ISBN | 1427022798, 9781427022790 |
| Length | 324 pages |
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