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Title: The Wharf by the Docks
A Novel
Author: Florence Warden
Release Date: June 19, 2005 [eBook #16092]
Language: English
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THE WHARF BY THE DOCKS
A Novel
by
FLORENCE WARDEN
Author of "The Mystery of the Inn by the Shore," etc.
1896
CHAPTER I.
SOMETHING AMISS.
Everybody knows Canterbury, with its Old-World charms and its
ostentatious air of being content to be rather behind the times, of
looking down upon the hurrying Americans who dash through its cathedral
and take snap-shots at its slums, and at all those busy moderns who
cannot afford to take life at its own jog-trot pace.
But everybody does not know the charming old halls and comfortable,
old-fashioned mansions which are dotted about the neighboring country,
either nestling in secluded nooks of the Kentish valleys or holding a
stately stand on the wooded hills.
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