Friends I Have Made
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About This Book
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ... and they never think it eccentric of me to take so much interest in houses with the window blinds drawn or shutters up, but rather give me their sympathy and help. Noticing such matters it will be no cause for surprise that I had often marked the black crape band worn upon the arm of their uniform coats by soldiers and volunteers. The first time then that I saw driver af...
Chapters (38)
- George Manville Fenn "Friends I have made"
- Chapter One.
- My Life.
- Chapter Two.
- The Sorrows of Madame Grainger.
- Chapter Three.
- My little hero.
- Chapter Four.
- A Morning with Misery.
- Chapter Five.
- Ruth’s Stepfather.
- Chapter Six.
- A Bird in a Cage.
- Chapter Seven.
- A Great Trouble.
- Chapter Eight.
- As Companion to a Lady.
- Chapter Nine.
- My Old Sergeant.
- Chapter Twelve.
- Somebody Dead.
- Chapter Thirteen.
- Having Patience.
- Chapter Fourteen.
- Pengelly’s Weakness.
- Chapter Fifteen.
- Salt Tears.
- Chapter Seventeen.
- The Empty House.
- Chapter Eighteen.
- My Friend in Hospital.
- Chapter Nineteen.
- My Old Bookseller.
- Chapter Twenty.
- Kate’s Ordeal.
- Chapter Twenty One.
- Cobweb’s Father.
- The End.
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