Beasley's Christmas Party (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781421803074)

The maple-bordered street was as still as a country Sunday; so quiet that there seemed an echo to my footsteps. It was four o'clock in the morning; clear October moonlight misted through the thinning foliage to the shadowy sidewalk and lay like a transparent silver fog upon the house of my admiration, as I strode along, returning from my first night's work on the "Wainwright Morning Despatch." I had already marked that house as the finest (to my taste) in Wainwright, though hitherto, on my excursions to this metropolis, the state capital, I was not without a certain native jealousy that Spencerville, the county-seat where I lived, had nothing so good. Now, however, I approached its purlieus with a pleasure in it quite unalloyed, for I was at last myself a resident (albeit of only one day's standing) of Wainwright, and the house - though I had not even an idea who lived there - part of my possessions as a citizen. Moreover, I might enjoy the warmer pride of a next-door-neighbor, for Mrs. Apperthwaite's, where I had taken a room, was just beyond.

Author: Booth Tarkington
ISBN-10: 1421803070
ISBN-13: 9781421803074
Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
Language: English
Published: 02/08/2006
Pages: 108
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.38d