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A Millionaire of Rough And-Ready and Ford
Excerpt from A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready: And Devil's Ford
It had lain there before him a moment ago - a misshapen piece of brown-stained quartz, interspersed With dull yellow metal; yielding enough to have allowed the points of his pick to penetrate its honeycombed re cesses, yet heavy enough to drop from the point of his pick as he endeavored to lift it from the red earth.
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It had lain there before him a moment ago - a misshapen piece of brown-stained quartz, interspersed With dull yellow metal; yielding enough to have allowed the points of his pick to penetrate its honeycombed re cesses, yet heavy enough to drop from the point of his pick as he endeavored to lift it from the red earth.
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.
323 pages, Paperback
First published July 17, 2015
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Alfred Sutro
180 books1 followerAlfred Sutro OBE was an English author and dramatist.
He was a translator and friend of Maeterlinck. Educated at the City of London School and in Brussels, he began his career with a series of translations of Maeterlinck's works, all of which except the dramas he translated from the French. Afterward turning his attention to the drama, he at first collaborated with Arthur Bourchier in producing The Chili Widow (1896), then wrote in rapid succession The Cave of Illusion (1900), Arethusa (1903), A Marriage Has Been Arranged (1904), and finally made a great success with The Walls of Jericho, produced at the Garrick Theatre, London, on October 21, 1904.
Sutro married Esther Stella Isaacs, the sister of the 1st Marquess of Reading, in 1894.
The Walls of Jericho (1904)
John Glayde's honour (1907)
The choice (1919)
The great well (1923)
He was a translator and friend of Maeterlinck. Educated at the City of London School and in Brussels, he began his career with a series of translations of Maeterlinck's works, all of which except the dramas he translated from the French. Afterward turning his attention to the drama, he at first collaborated with Arthur Bourchier in producing The Chili Widow (1896), then wrote in rapid succession The Cave of Illusion (1900), Arethusa (1903), A Marriage Has Been Arranged (1904), and finally made a great success with The Walls of Jericho, produced at the Garrick Theatre, London, on October 21, 1904.
Sutro married Esther Stella Isaacs, the sister of the 1st Marquess of Reading, in 1894.
The Walls of Jericho (1904)
John Glayde's honour (1907)
The choice (1919)
The great well (1923)
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