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Two Years Ago (by Charles Kingsley)

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Two Years Ago
 

Two Years Ago
(by Charles Kingsley)

$10.00

  • 1902 edition.  469 pages.
  • Published by Macmillian & Co Ltd, London.
  • Hardcover with red boards.
  • Fair plus condition.  Moderate age wear, tear, fading to boards. Front board crushed at the bottom corner.  Tanned page edges. Name  and date (July 12 1906) written on second free front page.

It may seem a somewhat Irish method of beginning the story of "Two Years Ago" by a scene which happened but a month since.  And yet, will not the story be on that very account a better type of many a man's own experiences.  How few of us had learnt the meaning of "Two Years Ago" until this late quiet autumn time;  and till Christmas too, with its gaps in the old ring of friendly faces, never to be filled up again on earth,  began to teach us somewhat of its lesson.

So felt, at least, two friends who went down, just one week before Christimas-day, to Whitbury, in Berkshire.  They wore both of them men who would at first sight interest a stranger.

The shorter of the two he might have seen before  -  at picture sales, Royal Academy meetings, dinner parties, evening parties, anywhere and everywhere, in town;  - for Claude Mellot is a general favourite, and a general guest. ........

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