The Wooden Hand: A Detective Story

The Wooden Hand: A Detective Story

The Wooden Hand: A Detective Story"Ah well, Miss Eva, I 'spose your pa'ull come home to spile...
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Author: Hume, Fergus,1859-1932
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Language: English
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The Wooden Hand: A Detective Story

The Wooden Hand: A Detective Story

$107.26 $53.60

The Wooden Hand: A Detective Story

$107.26 $53.60
Author: Hume, Fergus,1859-1932
Format: eBook
Language: English

The Wooden Hand: A Detective Story

"Ah well, Miss Eva, I 'spose your pa'ull come home to spile things as he allays have done. It ain't no wonder, I ses, as you sits moping by the winder, looking double your age, and you only twenty, as has no right to look forty, whatever you may say, though I took my dying alfred-david on its blessed truth." This slightly incoherent and decidedly pessimistic speech was moaned, rather than spoken, by a lean-bodied, hard-faced, staring-eyed woman to a pretty girl, who did not look at the speaker. And small wonder. Mrs. Merry--inappropriate name--was unattractive to the eye. She was angular, grey-skinned, grey-eyed, grey-haired, and had thin, drooping lips almost as grey as the rest of her. In her black stuff gown--she invariably wore the most funereal dresses--with uneasy hands folded under a coarse apron, she stood before Eva Strode, uttering lamentations worthy of Jeremiah at his worst. But such dumpishness was characteristic of the woman. She delighted in looking on the black side of things, and the blacker they were, the more she relished them. Out of wrong-doing, and grief and things awry, she extracted a queer sort of pleasure, and felt never so happy as when the worst came to the worst. It seemed unfit that such a walking pageant of woe should be called Merry. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 55102
Author: Hume, Fergus
Release Date: Jul 12, 2017
Format: eBook
Language: English

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