The Safety of Jersey

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER I. Tired of the great metropolis, and its mill round monotony of agremens?for even of a good thing it is possible to have too much?I had resolved, by way of shaking off the cobwebs which ennui, like a loathsome spider, was daily weaving round my heart, fairly to make a bolt of it. When a man is...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER I. Tired of the great metropolis, and its mill round monotony of agremens?for even of a good thing it is possible to have too much?I had resolved, by way of shaking off the cobwebs which ennui, like a loathsome spider, was daily weaving round my heart, fairly to make a bolt of it. When a man is moved by the spirit of change, and yet undetermined as to place, a very trifling circumstance will often settle that matter. This reflection calls to my mind the great responsibility of those tourists, who, under the sanction of a literary reputation, and the illusive garb of a fine broad margin of vellum, and sundry pages of post octavo, prettily dotted with beautiful pica, and looking like' new dominoes, fancy themselves legalized to seduce comfortable old bachelors from their cosey chimney corners, to revel in luxuries oftentimes as unreal and intangible as those promised to tho Governor of Barataria. The deuce take your history, Mr. . I wish your seductive eloquence had been exhausted on the poor laws, the corn laws, the tithe, or church property question, or any other equally abstruse, and which would never have called into action my natural curiosity?as it is, the evil you have done will be scarcely less immortal than your fame. Had I never read your history, it is more than probable I should never have perpetrated this, as it is, under the stimulating influence of your persuasion, it was short work to find myself in Southampton, and not much longer to arrive at the scene of your description?this is episodic however. The passengers on board the steamer were not numerous, though select, and indeed, an honest couple from Tooley Street in the Borough, not a little contributed to enliven those few probationary hours of existence?indispensible to the attainment...