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Excerpt from The Adventures of Philip, Vol. 2 of 2: On His Map Through the World Showing Who Robbed Him, Who Helped Him and Who Passed Him by to Which Is Now Prefixed a Shabby Genteel Story
I don''t think poor General Baynes ever had a proper sense of his situation, or knew how miserable he ought by rights to have been. He was not uncheerful at times: a Silent man, liking his rubber and his glass of wine; a very weak person in the common affairs of life, as his best friends must own; but, as I have heard, a very tiger in action. I know your opinion of the General, Philip used to say to me, in his grandiloquent way. You despise men who don''t bully their wives; you do, sir! You think the General weak, I know, I know. Other brave men were so about women, as I dare say you have heard. This man, so weak at home, was mighty on the war - path; and in his Wigwam are the scalps of countless warriors.
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I don''t think poor General Baynes ever had a proper sense of his situation, or knew how miserable he ought by rights to have been. He was not uncheerful at times: a Silent man, liking his rubber and his glass of wine; a very weak person in the common affairs of life, as his best friends must own; but, as I have heard, a very tiger in action. I know your opinion of the General, Philip used to say to me, in his grandiloquent way. You despise men who don''t bully their wives; you do, sir! You think the General weak, I know, I know. Other brave men were so about women, as I dare say you have heard. This man, so weak at home, was mighty on the war - path; and in his Wigwam are the scalps of countless warriors.
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.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Author(s) - William Makepeace Thackeray
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ISBN - 9780365474388
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm
Page Count - 371
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ISBN - 9781330766118
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