Marjorie L. C. Pickthall
Published: 2017-02-05
Total Pages: 138
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Excerpt from The Straight Road: With Six Illustrations H'm, said his uncle quietly. Lie looked at the lad's clever, impressionable face. I think you'd better come with me to my hotel, he said, and get a brush up and a good dinner and go to bed early. You'll need plenty of sleep to - night, for you won't get much for the next forty-eight hours. He turned away as if the matter was settled, that air of authority strong upon him. Alan did not care for an air of authority in other people. He had mapped out a gay evening for himself, and he felt rebellious. He wondered how he could most discreetly, yet firmly, give his uncle to understand that meddling in his nephew's affairs would not be tolerated by the said nephew. 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.