The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 3

The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 3

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Author: Lever, Charles James,1806-1872
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The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 3

The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 3

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The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 3

$19.99 $9.99
Author: Lever, Charles James,1806-1872
Format: eBook
Language: English

The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 3

[Note: Though the title page has no author's name inscribed, this work is generally attributed to Charles James Lever.] As there appeared to be but little prospect of poor Fitzgerald ever requiring any explanation from me as to the events of that morning, for he feared to venture from his room, lest he might be recognised and prosecuted for abduction, I thought it better to keep my own secret also; and it was therefore with a feeling of any thing but regret, that I received an order which, under other circumstances, would have rendered me miserableto march on detachment duty. To any one at all conversant with the life we lead in the army, I need not say how unpleasant such a change usually is. To surrender your capital mess, with all its well-appointed equipmentsyour jovial brother officershourly flirtations with the whole female populationnever a deficient one in a garrison townnot to speak of your matches at trotting, coursing, and pigeon-shooting, and a hundred other delectable modes of getting over the ground through life, till it please your ungrateful country and the Horse Guards to make you a major-generalto surrender all these, I say, for the noise, dust, and damp disagreeables of a country inn, with bacon to eat, whiskey to drink, and the priest, or the constabulary chief, to get drunk withI speak of Ireland hereand your only affair, par amours, being the occasional ogling of the apothecary's daughter opposite, as often as she visits the shop, in the soi disant occupation of measuring out garden seeds and senna. These are indeed, the exchanges with a difference, for which there is no compensation; and, for my own part, I never went upon such duty, that I did not exclaim with the honest Irishman, when the mail went over him, "Oh, Lord! what is this for?"firmly believing that in the earthly purgatory of such duties, I was reaping the heavy retribution attendant on past offences. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 5236
Author: Lever, Charles James
Release Date: Jun 1, 2004
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Illustrator: Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882

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