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    The Well The Lady of the Barge and Others, Part 4.
    The Well The Lady of the Barge and Others, Part 4.
    The Well The Lady of the Barge and Others, Part 4.
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    The Well The Lady of the Barge and Others, Part 4.

    By W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      The Well The Lady of the Barge and Others, Part 4. - W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

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      Title: The Well

      The Lady of the Barge and Others, Part 4.

      Author: W.W. Jacobs

      Release Date: April 22, 2004 [EBook #12124]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WELL ***

      Produced by David Widger

      THE LADY OF THE BARGE

      AND OTHER STORIES

      By W. W. Jacobs

      BOOK 4

      THE WELL

      Two men stood in the billiard-room of an old country house, talking. Play, which had been of a half-hearted nature, was over, and they sat at the open window, looking out over the park stretching away beneath them, conversing idly.

      Your time's nearly up, Jem, said one at length, this time six weeks you'll be yawning out the honeymoon and cursing the man—woman I mean— who invented them.

      Jem Benson stretched his long limbs in the chair and grunted in dissent.

      I've never understood it, continued Wilfred Carr, yawning. It's not in my line at all; I never had enough money for my own wants, let alone for two. Perhaps if I were as rich as you or Croesus I might regard it differently.

      There was just sufficient meaning in the latter part of the remark for his cousin to forbear to reply to it. He continued to gaze out of the window and to smoke slowly.

      Not being as rich as Croesus—or you, resumed Carr, regarding him from beneath lowered lids, I paddle my own canoe down the stream of Time, and, tying it to my friends' door-posts, go in to eat their dinners.

      Quite Venetian, said Jem Benson, still looking out of the window. It's not a bad thing for you, Wilfred, that you have the doorposts and dinners—and friends.

      Carr grunted

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