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    In the Library The Lady of the Barge and Others, Part 6.
    In the Library The Lady of the Barge and Others, Part 6.
    In the Library The Lady of the Barge and Others, Part 6.
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    In the Library The Lady of the Barge and Others, Part 6.

    By W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      In the Library The Lady of the Barge and Others, Part 6. - W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

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      Title: In The Library

      The Lady of the Barge and Others, Part 6.

      Author: W.W. Jacobs

      Release Date: April 22, 2004 [EBook #12126]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IN THE LIBRARY ***

      Produced by David Widger

      THE LADY OF THE BARGE

      AND OTHER STORIES

      By W. W. Jacobs

      BOOK 6

      IN THE LIBRARY

      The fire had burnt low in the library, for the night was wet and warm. It was now little more than a grey shell, and looked desolate. Trayton Burleigh, still hot, rose from his armchair, and turning out one of the gas-jets, took a cigar from a box on a side-table and resumed his seat again.

      The apartment, which was on the third floor at the back of the house, was a combination of library, study, and smoke-room, and was the daily despair of the old housekeeper who, with the assistance of one servant, managed the house. It was a bachelor establishment, and had been left to Trayton Burleigh and James Fletcher by a distant connection of both men some ten years before.

      Trayton Burleigh sat back in his chair watching the smoke of his cigar through half-closed eyes. Occasionally he opened them a little wider and glanced round the comfortable, well-furnished room, or stared with a cold gleam of hatred at Fletcher as he sat sucking stolidly at his brier pipe. It was a comfortable room and a valuable house, half of which belonged to Trayton Burleigh; and

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