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Five Tales
John Galsworthy
Five Tales
John Galsworthy
Book Excerpt: ...clear intellect, trained to almost instinctive rejection of all but the essential, to selection of what was legally vital out of the mass of confused tactical and human detail presented to his scrutiny; yet sometimes tedious and wearing. As for instance to-day, when he had suspected his client of perjury, and was almost convinced that he must throw up his brief. He had disliked the weak-looking, white-faced fellow from the first, and his nervous, shifty answers, his prominent startled eyes--a type too common in these days of canting tolerations and weak humanitarianism; no good, no good!Of the three books he had taken down, a Volume of Voltaire--curious fascination that Frenchman had, for all his destructive irony!--a volume of Burton's travels, and Stevenson's "New Arabian Nights," he had pitched upon the last. He felt, that evening, the want of something sedative, a desire to rest from thought of any kind. The court had been crowded, stuffy; the air, as he walked home, soft, sou'-westerly, charged w...
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | September 16, 2020 |
ISBN13 | 9798681194316 |
Publishers | Independently Published |
Pages | 240 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 13 mm · 326 g |
Language | English |
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