Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 739, February 23, 1878

Various; Chambers, Robert, 1802-1871 [Editor]; Chambers, William, 1800-1883 [Editor]· 2 chapters· 12,926 words

The _De Vere Arms_ at Pebworth, fourth-rate hotel though it necessarily was in a place where any hotel of the first or even of the second magnitude would have been as an oak in a flower-pot, was well and neatly kept. There was the commercial connection, and there was the count...

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1. CHAPTER XI.—AN UNEXPECTED MEETING.

The _De Vere Arms_ at Pebworth, fourth-rate hotel though it necessarily was in a place where any hotel of the first or even of the second magnitude would have been as an oak in...

2. CHAPTER XII.—IN NO. XI.

No. 11 was a sitting-room of a class peculiar to those old-fashioned inns which are rapidly being improved off the length and breadth of Britain, large, low-ceiled, with a slopi...