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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1896Original Publisher: Macmillan and co. Subjects: Fiction / ClassicsFiction / LiteraryHistory / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshPoetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh 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 General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1896Original Publisher: Macmillan and co. Subjects: Fiction / ClassicsFiction / LiteraryHistory / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshPoetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh 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: CHAPTER III THE ARRIVALS IN the midst of that scene of confusion thrice confounded, in which we left the inhabitants of Headlong Hall, arrived the lovely Caprioletta Headlong, the Squire, s sister (whom he had sent for, from the residence of her maiden aunt at Caernarvon, to do the honours of his house), beaming like light on chaos, to arrange disorder and harmonise discord. The tempestuous spirit of her brother became instantaneously as smooth as the surface of the lake of Llanberris; and the little fat butler ' plessed Cot, and St. Tafit, and the peautiful tamsel, for being permitted to move about the house in his natural pace. In less than twenty-four hours after her arrival everything was disposed in its proper station, and the Squire began to be all impatience for the appearance of his promised guests. The first visitor with whom he had the felicity of shaking hands was Marmaduke Milestone, Esquire, who arrived with a portfolio under his arm. Mr. Milestone1 was a picturesque 1 Mr. Knight, in a note to the Landscape, having taken the liberty of laughing at a notable device of a celebrated improver, for giving greatness of character to a place, and showing an undivided extent of property, by placing the family arms on the neighbouring milestones, the improver retorted on him with a charge of misquotation, misrepresentation, and malice prepense. Mr. Books, History~~General, Headlong-Hall-And-Nightmare-Abbey~~Thomas-Love-Peacock, 999999999, Headlong Hall and Nightmare Abbey, Thomas Love Peacock, Created by General Books, 0217219586, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<

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