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    A Mixed Proposal The Lady of the Barge and Others, Part 9.
    A Mixed Proposal The Lady of the Barge and Others, Part 9.
    A Mixed Proposal The Lady of the Barge and Others, Part 9.
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    A Mixed Proposal The Lady of the Barge and Others, Part 9.

    By W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      A Mixed Proposal The Lady of the Barge and Others, Part 9. - W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Mixed Proposal, by W.W. Jacobs

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      Title: A Mixed Proposal

      The Lady of the Barge and Others, Part 9.

      Author: W.W. Jacobs

      Release Date: April 22, 2004 [EBook #12129]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A MIXED PROPOSAL ***

      Produced by David Widger

      THE LADY OF THE BARGE

      AND OTHER STORIES

      By W. W. Jacobs

      BOOK 9

      A MIXED PROPOSAL

      Major Brill, late of the Fenshire Volununteers, stood in front of the small piece of glass in the hatstand, and with a firm and experienced hand gave his new silk hat a slight tilt over the right eye. Then he took his cane and a new pair of gloves, and with a military but squeaky tread, passed out into the road. It was a glorious day in early autumn, and the soft English landscape was looking its best, but despite the fact that there was nothing more alarming in sight than a few cows on the hillside a mile away, the Major paused at his gate, and his face took on an appearance of the greatest courage and resolution before proceeding. The road was dusty and quiet, except for the children playing at cottage doors, and so hot that the Major, heedless of the fact that he could not replace the hat at exactly the same angle, stood in the shade of a tree while he removed it and mopped his heated brow.

      He proceeded on his way more leisurely, overtaking, despite his lack of speed, another man who was walking still

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