The Quadroon - Mayne Reid - Bücher - INDEPENDENTLY PUBLISHED - 9798688118667 - 30. Dezember 2020
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The Quadroon

Mayne Reid

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Book Excerpt: ...classic training, that had not enabled me to protect my purse, was not likely to aid me in replenishing it; and in all that busy city I could find no office that I was fitted to fill!Friendless--dispirited--a little disgusted--not a little anxious in regard to my immediate future, I sauntered about the streets. My acquaintances were becoming scarcer every day. I missed them from their usual haunts--the haunts of pleasure. "Whither had they gone?"There was no mystery in their disappearance. It was now mid-June. The weather had become intensely hot, and every day the mercury mounted higher upon the scale. It was already dancing in the neighbourhood of 100 degrees of Fahrenheit. In a week or two might be expected that annual but unwelcome visitor known by the soubriquet of "Yellow Jack," whose presence is alike dreaded by young and old; and it was the terror inspired by him that was driving the fashionable world of New Orleans, like birds of passage, to a northern clime. I am not more cour...

Medien Bücher     Taschenbuch   (Buch mit Softcover und geklebtem Rücken)
Erscheinungsdatum 30. Dezember 2020
ISBN13 9798688118667
Verlag INDEPENDENTLY PUBLISHED
Seitenanzahl 366
Maße 152 × 229 × 19 mm   ·   490 g
Sprache Englisch  

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