Real Folks
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1872 Original Publisher: J. R. Osgood and company Description: "Riverside, Cambridge: stereotyped and printed by H.O. Houghton and Company."--verso of title page. Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of ...
MoreGeneral Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1872 Original Publisher: J. R. Osgood and company Description: "Riverside, Cambridge: stereotyped and printed by H.O. Houghton and Company."--verso of title page. Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: IV. AFTERWARDS IS A LONG TIME. D Mr. Marmaduke Wharne had come down from Outledge, in the mountains, on his way home to New York. He had stopped in Boston to attend to some affairs of his own, -- if one can call them so, since Marmaduke Wharne never had any " own " affairs that did not chiefly concern, to their advantage, somebody else, -- in which his friend Mr. Titus Oldways was interested, not personally, but Wharne fashion. Now, reader, you know something about Mr. Titus Oldways, which up to this moment, only God, and Marmaduke Wharne, and Rachel Froke, who kept Mr. Oldways' house, and wore a Friend's drab dress and white cap, and said " Titus," and " Marmaduke " to the two old gentlemen, and " thee " and "thou " to everybody, -- have ever known. In a general way and relation, I mean; separate persons knew particular things; but each separate person thought the particular thing he knew to be a whimsical exception. Mr. Oldways did not belong to any church : but he had an English Prayer-book under his Bible on his study table, and Baxter and Fenelon and a Kempis and " Wesley's Hymns," and Swedenborg's " Heaven and Hell" and "Arcana Celestia," and Lowell's "Sir Launfal," and Dickens's "Christmas Carol," all on the same set of shelves, -- that held, he told Marmaduke, his religion ; or as much of it as he could get together. And he had this woman, who was a Friend, and who walked by the Inner Light, and in outer charity, if ever a woman did, to...
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