Foul Play: (Dion Boucicault & Charles Reade Classics Collection) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781517367428)

THERE are places which appear, at first sight, inaccessible to romance; and such a place was Mr. Wardlaw's dining-room in Russell Square. It was very large, had sickly green walls, picked out with aldermen, full length; heavy maroon curtains; mahogany chairs; a turkey carpet an inch thick: and was lighted with wax candles only. In the center, bristling and gleaming with silver and glass, was a round table, at which fourteen could have dined comfortably; and at opposite sides of this table sat two gentlemen, who looked as neat, grave, precise, and unromantic, as the place: Merchant Wardlaw, and his son. Wardlaw senior was an elderly man, tall, thin, iron-gray, with a round head, a short, thick neck, a good, brown eye, a square jowl that betokened resolution, and a complexion so sallow as to be almost cadaverous. Hard as iron: but a certain stiff dignity and respectability sat upon him, and became him. Arthur Wardlaw resembled his father

Author: Dion Boucicault Charles Reade
ISBN-10: 1517367425
ISBN-13: 9781517367428
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 09/15/2015
Pages: 536
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.56lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 1.08d