This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ... A BACHELOR MAID R. JUSTICE IRVING was in the act of putting on his overcoat to leave the Antediluvian Club. He was feeling reasonably cheerful, for he had beaten his favorite adversary, Bob Crouch, at billiards; so cheerful, indeed, that he made a mental note of a fleeting resolve to give Crouch, to console him, the next appointment he should have of a commissioner in lunacy. It was, therefore, a smiling countenance his honor turned upon a young man already equipped for the street, who came to offer him a hand with his coat. "Ha, Gordon! That you? Have n't seen you before this evening." "No; I have just come in, hoping to catch you -- and to walk home with you, if I may." "Glad of your company, my dear boy," the judge said, as they emerged under the sparkling heaven of a mild winter's night in New York. "Wanted to speak to you about the sale of Romaine's books. What the deuce he means by selling them, I can't make out. Twenty good years of a man's life put into a collection that can't be beat for choiceness, and here they are to be scattered for a freak. You must manage to be there, my dear lad; there are one or two tidbits my mouth has been watering for this age. You must appear for me, as usual, and mind you secure them, if I am to die in -peace. And I've got a copy of the new Prayer-Book, Edition de luxe, to show you, with a story attached to it as good, almost, as my luck in getting it half price. Did n't see you at the Grolier last night, by the way. Were you and Marion quarreling, as usual, at our house? Can't think where that daughter of mine gets her way of flying off the handle about little things not quite to her taste." "She has flown off the handle for good and all, so far as I am concerned," said the young lawyer. "She has...

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