at the time of the invention of bicycling.
034. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BE_EP1OviSmbuiO2awupQvi5OwPk0Ic3/view?usp=sharing
He was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire upon a handsome competence.
035. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dzwhl6oqKJJrnXeZa0RuvkhV8cr8bG1a/view?usp=sharing
“My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson’s army, and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel.
036. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D2PK_MPTjXbOBQGu-DFB_XoUOR-zAHUj/view?usp=sharing
When Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham.
037. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z36YCRM775vuS9i6zNght7O6EnwCNc-5/view?usp=sharing
He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to them.
038. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gsUvvdDnzZDRbg-d2g1EJs1hL0sAiQUW/view?usp=sharing
He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I doubt if ever he set foot in the town.
039. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cM-wyYwzx1W04YHcDtmcyWd2P2cQO-I8/view?usp=sharing
He had a garden and two or three fields round his house, and there he would take his exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave his room.
040. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xWBkJ0KCOTtuUKD7ZEt-lm5TJQ6QUJiD/view?usp=sharing
He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any friends, not even his own brother.
041. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fpVgbXsEJnPmlY0MDUAsoDp9FO8iM2oI/view?usp=sharing
“He didn’t mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years in England.
042. https://drive.google.com/file/d/15SLhpSuJduLo3PpsfSKkCMnimAX0KoUl/view?usp=sharing
He begged my father to let me live with him and he was very kind to me in his way.
043. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X8XNF9J1jmiKcIfCItZ6fo-t6sUaqRpo/view?usp=sharing
When he was sober he used to be fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would make me his representative both with the servants and with the tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite master of the house.
Конец ознакомительного фрагмента.
Текст предоставлен ООО «ЛитРес».
Прочитайте эту книгу целиком, купив полную легальную версию на ЛитРес.
Безопасно оплатить книгу можно банковской картой Visa, MasterCard, Maestro, со счета мобильного телефона, с платежного терминала, в салоне МТС или Связной, через PayPal, WebMoney, Яндекс.Деньги, QIWI Кошелек, бонусными картами или другим удобным Вам способом.
