After His Kind (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from After His KindHard rider, deep drinker, mad player, quick striker, fierce wooer, with his heart in his mouth and his purse in his hand, Devil Dick Shus toke the despair of magistrates and clergy, the delight of women, the darling of servants, and the wonder of all. Only his mother understood him. When he had made the county too hot to hold him, she said, the clear boy is growing restless this place is dull for him, he needs change we all need Change from time to time, the best of us. There is the sweet old home in England, that his grand father loved to talk about. 'tis time some one went over to see it, and our people there, the Midland Shustokes. There are the parish regis ters and the churchyards and tombs, they would amuse him. He shall sail with Cousin Robert in the Favorite - for a change.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.