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The Campion Diamonds
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I the mystery forty-five to-day! These birthdays will be the death of me yet, thought Henry Campion with a humorous sigh as he plodded through the muddy streets toward his own elegant mansion on a height in Los Angeles.
In the days of his frost-nipped boyhood back East, the Campion family had bee-n too poor and too busy to pay much regard to anniversaries of any sort; and Henry found now as his own birth days followed one another faster and faster, with the whirring speed of a weaver's shuttle, that he was growing averse to hearing them mentioned. The effect of birthdays like that of certain drugs - is cumulative, and must naturally appall his beautiful wife, his junior by nearly twenty years.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
I the mystery forty-five to-day! These birthdays will be the death of me yet, thought Henry Campion with a humorous sigh as he plodded through the muddy streets toward his own elegant mansion on a height in Los Angeles.
In the days of his frost-nipped boyhood back East, the Campion family had bee-n too poor and too busy to pay much regard to anniversaries of any sort; and Henry found now as his own birth days followed one another faster and faster, with the whirring speed of a weaver's shuttle, that he was growing averse to hearing them mentioned. The effect of birthdays like that of certain drugs - is cumulative, and must naturally appall his beautiful wife, his junior by nearly twenty years.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
66 pages, Hardcover
First published September 27, 2015
About the author
Sophie May
215 books9 followersRebecca Sophia Clarke, an American children's author of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, wrote forty-five books under the pseudonym Sophie May; chief among them were her immensely popular Little Prudy and Dotty Dimple series. Clarke lived most of her life in her hometown of Norridgewock, Maine, save for ten years spent as a teacher in Evansville, Indiana. After suffering a severe hearing loss in 1861, she went to live with her sister, Sarah Jones Clarke, another children's author, who published under the name Penn Shirley.
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