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Excerpt from Pious Frauds, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel
On Saturdays the courts rose early, and it did him no harm to be seen on the river with his cousin. The silver spoon and the wooden ladle were, for once, in the same boat, and that a labour one. Ladle rowed stroke; Spoon had the bow oar. The water loo/red delightfully cool, the wash of the distant weir sounded cool, the next reach, where the willows threw their shadows over the flowery fringes of the bank's green mantle, promised coolness but out in the stream where they were, and rowing against it, the sun was unmistakably hot. Ladle, as is often the case, was out of condition, and puffed; Spoon, wirey little athlete, hadn't turned a hair. Ladle, who had started with a spirit, was ashamed to give in; Spoon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
