Opis: Love and Mr. Lewisham (Classic Reprint) - Herbert George Wells

Excerpt from Love and Mr. Lewisham

The opening chapter does not concern itself with Love - indeed that antagonist does not certainly appear until the third - and Mr Lewisham is seen at his studies. It was ten years ago, and in those days he was assistant master in the Whortley Proprietary School, Whortley, Sussex, and his wages were forty pounds a year, out of which he had to afford fifteen shillings a week during term time to lodge with Mrs Munday, at the little shop in the West Street. He was called 'Mr' to distinguish him from the bigger boys, whose duty it was to learn, and it was a matter of stringent regulation that he should be addressed as 'Sir.'

He wore ready-made clothes, his black jacket of rigid line was dusted about the front and sleeves with scholastic chalk, and his face was downy and his moustache incipient. He was a passable-looking youngster of eighteen, fair-haired, indifferently barbered, and with a quite unnecessary pair of glasses on his fairly prominent nose - he wore these to make himself look older, that discipline might be maintained. At the particular moment when this story begins he was in his bedroom. An attic it was, with lead-framed dormer windows, a slanting ceiling, and a bulging wall, covered, as a number of torn places witnessed, with innumerable strata of florid old-fashioned paper.

To judge by the room, Mr Lewisham thought little of Love but much on Greatness.

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Szczegóły: Love and Mr. Lewisham (Classic Reprint) - Herbert George Wells

Nazwa: Love and Mr. Lewisham (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Herbert George Wells
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781451004007
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 332
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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