Captain Canot
- ISBN-10
- 1505285828
- ISBN-13
- 9781505285826
- Series
- Captain Canot
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 252
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-02-10
- Publisher
- CreateSpace
- Author
- Brantz Mayer Theodore Canot
Description
"[...]words out of my mouth when his lordship leaped from the bed, and in the scantiest drapery imaginable, seized me by the collar, inflicting such a shaking as I would willingly have exchanged for a tertian ague from the Pontine marshes. The sudden air-bath probably cooled his choler, for, in a few moments, we found ourselves in a pacific explanation about the luckless pencil. Hitherto I had not mentioned my uncle; but the moment I stated the relationship, Byron became pacified and credited my story. After searching his pockets once more ineffectually for the lost silver, he presented me his own gold pencil instead, and requested me to say why I “cursed him in French?” “My father was a Frenchman, my lord,” said I.[...]".
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