A Little World

ISBN-13: 9781518688324 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 140 str.

George Manville Fenn

Opis

"Some people are such fools " said Richard Pellet; and, if public judgment was right, he knew what a fool was as well as any man in the great city of London. He was a big man was Richard Pellet, Esq., C.C., shipper, of Austin Friars, and known among city men as "the six-hundred-pounder;" and he knew a fool when he saw one. But whether at his office in the city, or down at his place at Norwood, -"his little place at Norwood," where he had "a morsel of garden" and "a bit of glass," and grew pine and melon, peach and grape, and had a fat butler in black, and a staff of servants in drab, trimmed with yellow coach-lace, -no matter where Richard Pellet might be, he could always see in his mind's eye the greatest fool that ever breathed-the man whom he was always mentally abusing-to wit, his brother Jare