Author: Grant Allen

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-29

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 9780267155187

Excerpt from The Jaws of Death: A Novel Enjoy the spring of Love and Youth, To some good angel leave the rest For Time will teach thee soon the truth, There are no birds in last year's nest! Longfellow. Why, certainly. A great many folks ask me what it was that turned my hair white. And you don't Often see a young man of my age with snow-white locks like these, I'm aware. I con sider it a Well, it was that awful night at San Francisco that did it, ifyou want to know. I tell you, gentlemen, if ever any fellow was rescued from the jaws of death by the skin of his teeth, it's the individual that now stands before you. But it's a long yarn, and a dry yarn, and it'll take some time to tell it properly. Let's adjourn to the billiard-room, and have it all out over a brandy and soda, since you will be inquisitive. I always require a brandy and soda myself when I tell that tale, just to keep my mouth moist; the horror of the thing comes back to me so still, that it somehow seems to dry my blood up. 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.