The Milky Way (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Milky WayThere was no evading the fact that my luck had left me - left me so completely that my nerve suddenly failed me and I wrote to Harry and Said Yes. With the letter in the pocket of my one and only coat I sat on Penzance quay and wished I had a hundred a year of my own.A small steamer of some 400 tons was awaiting the afternoon tide to make the harbour, and gazing at her idly, I thought over my decision. Was I glad I had agreed to marry Harry? How absurd it sounded Marry Harry, Harry marry I It would be good to be taken care of and to have no anxiety about the morrow, of that much I was sure. I had just finished a set of water-colour illustrations to a book on Cornwall for Messrs. Heriot Dale, which they had no sooner received than they went bankrupt. Farewell to the fat little cheque which meant a winter in Paris, farewell to a winter anywhere save in the workhouse, for I had exactly thirty-eight Shillings and threepence left in the world. It was the final blow, for having just recovered from a bad attack of ¿u, I was still a worm and no man.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.