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Men's Wives

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Looking from his chambers on the other side of the street, that inevitable Mr. Walker saw the tailor issuing from the perfumer's shop, and was at no loss to guess that something extraordinary must be in progress when two such bitter enemies met together.





CHAPTER III. WHAT CAME OF MR WALKER'S DISCOVERY OF THE "BOOTJACK."

It is very easy to state how the Captain came to take up that proud position at the "Bootjack" which we have seen him occupy on the evening when the sound of the fatal "Brava!" so astonished Mr. Eglantine.

The mere entry into the establishment was, of course, not difficult. Any person by simply uttering the words "A pint of beer," was free of the "Bootjack;" and it was some such watchword that Howard Walker employed when he made his first appearance. He requested to be shown into a parlour, where he might repose himself for a while, and was ushered into that very sanctum where the "Kidney Club" met. Then he st. . . Read More

Community Reviews

2.00
- Carlos - May 19, 2022

“The Ravenswing” es una novela corta o novella publicada por William Thackeray en Fraser’s Magazine de manera serializada en cinco entregas, entre abril y septiembre de 1843, como parte de la tetralogía Men’s Wives. Esta originalmente incluía otros tres relatos mucho más cortos, también publicados e

4.00
- Katie - Sep 30, 2012

Clever, funny, telling.

3.00
- Yasmina - Nov 18, 2018

Very dense, and this edition in special has many mispelling mistakes.

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