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Excerpt from The Duke

I'll remember 'em all right. You've bin a devil ish good friend - and all that. I'll do what I can for the next Duke. I'm only afraid he won't thank me for my trouble.

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Excerpt from The Duke

Francis Le Claire Haselle, Duke of Grandon, and many things besides, had come to the limit of his reign. There was straw lying a foot deep for a quarter of a mile before Grandon House, and in the sick-chamber you could hardly hear a sound out of all the London noises. He was only forty-eight, and he lay with his eyes still bright and his wits about him, but his doom had been told and he knew there was just a grain or two of sand to run through the glass. Only one sat in the room beside his bed, a tall man with a long face and a square mouth and two little bits of side whisker. His features were clean cut, though by no means handsome; his eyes light grey, and his costume scrupulously correct in the mode of the sportsman about town.

"Pull up that blind a bit, Pursie," said the Duke.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.