Excerpt from Hemming, the Adventurer

Even in Dublin, a man with something over his pay can make himself comfortable, in seven months, mused the colonel. Being a bachelor him self, he liked the way things were arranged. For instance, the small book-shelf above the bed, with its freight of well-thumbed volumes, tobacco - jar.

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