The Big Mogul

The Big Mogul

THE BIG MOGUL QUEER JUDSON RUGGED WATER DOCTOR NYE FAIR HARBOR GALUSHA THE MAGNIFICENT THE PORTYGEE SHAVINGS MARY-GUSTA CAPN DANS DAUGHTER THE RISE OF ROSCOE PAINE THE POSTMASTER THE WOMAN-HATERS KEZIAH COFFIN CY WHITTAKERS PLACE CAPN ERI EXTRICATING OBADIAH THANKFULS INHERITANCE MR. PRATT MR. PRATTS PATIENTS KENT KNOWLES: QUAHAUG CAPN WARRENS WARDS THE DEPOT MASTER OUR VILLAGE PARTNERS OF THE TIDE THE OLD HOME HOUSE CAPE COD BALLADS THE MANAGERS THIS was the library of the Townsend mansion in Harniss. Mrs. Townsend had so christened it when the mansion was built; or, to be more explicit, the Boston architect who drew the plans had lettered the word Library inside the rectangle indicating the big room, just as he had lettered Drawing-Room in the adjoining, and still larger, rectangle, and Mrs. Townsend had approved both plans and lettering. In the former, and much smaller, home of the Townsends there had been neither library nor drawing-room, the apartments corresponding to them were known respectively as the sitting-room and the parlor. When the little house was partially demolished and the mansion took its place the rechristened sitting-room acquired two black walnut bookcases and a dozen sets, the latter resplendent in morocco and gilt. Now the gilt letters gleamed dimly behind the glass in the light from the student lamp upon the marble-topped center table beside which Foster Townsend was sitting, reading a Boston morning newspaper. It was six oclock in the afternoon of a dark day in the fall of a year late in the seventies. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 68048
Author: Lincoln, Joseph Crosby
Release Date: May 11, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: D. Appleton and Company
Publication Date: 1926
Publisher Country: United States