Excerpt from David and Abigail
His interlocutor was his contemporary in years', but his antithesis in all things else; a well-born, well-bred, proud and dignified gentleman; one of the good old kind. Toil, nor the weight of busy years, had left no hard lines on his forehead, no silver threads 'in his hair. A life of wealth, of luxurious ease and elegant leisure, rounded into a career of social and political prefer ment, had been his. It was only of late that troubles had begun to come only as he had turned the downward Slope of life, hitherto so sunny, that fortune had turned also. Hand in hand they, prosperity and he, had climbed together to the top, and now, hand in hand, they seemed to be tottering together down to the bottom. The fast-widening streaks of gray that were mottling his head were of sudden springing one year ago not a single silver thread could have been found.
Oh, God my God what shall I do 1 he groaned as the jealous door closed after his unwelcome visitor, shutting him in, alone with his humiliation and misery.
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| ISBN: | 9781330919552 |
| Publication date: | 14th November 2018 |
| Author: | Unknown Author |
| Publisher: | Forgotten Books an imprint of Fb&c Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 374 pages |
| Genres: |
Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction |