Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 edition. Excerpt: ... here to this blessed house, and took up the mortgage on Harrington's property; and every body knows he has been after Aggy this twelvemonth, offering to marry her and clear the property, and do well by the child. And if there's a good man on airth, Boon is that man, and every body knows it.' What did Henry Beckworth now? He unordered his horse, and went quietly to bed. 'CHAPTER XXVL There are thoughts that our burden can lighten, Though toilsome and steep be the way, And dreams that Irke moonlight can brighten With a luatre far clearer than day. Love nursed amid pleasures is faithless as they, Hut the love bcrn of sorrow, like sorrow is 'true. JfoOUt Henry Beckworth came from the hand of Nature abundantly furnished with that excellent qualification known and revered throughout New-England, under the expressive name of ' spunk.' This quality at first prompted him, spite of the-croakings of the ill-omened Job, to present himself before-the one only object of his constant soul, to tell her all, and to ask her to share with him the weal or woe which might yet be in store for him. But he had now seen a good 3eal of this excellent world, and the very indifferent people who transact its affairs. He had tasted the tender mercies of a British man o' war, and the various agremens of a French prison; and the practical conclusion which had gradually possessed itself of his mind, was, that money is, beyond all dispute, one of the necessaries oflife." S-II-V.U. No way of making money off-hand occurred to him as he tossed and groaned through the endless hours of that weary night. He had neither house nor land, nor yet a lottery ticket--nor a place under government--and the chest which stood at his bedside, though it contained enough of this world's...
