<p>Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1899. Excerpt: ... "For where did all those five-franc pieces come from--hein ?--with which she had tried to pay for all the singing-lessons that had been thrown away upon her? Not from merely sitting to painters--hein?" Thus the little gazelle-eyed Jerusalem skylark went back to her native streets again--a mere mud-lark of the Paris slums -- her wings clipped, her spirit quenched and broken, and with no more singing left in her than a common or garden sparrow -- not so much! And so, no more of "la betite Ilonorine!" The morning after this adventure Svengali woke up in his garret with a tremendous longing to spend a happy day; for it was a Sunday, and a very fine one. He made a long arm and reached his waistcoat and trousers off the floor, and emptied the contents of their pockets on to his tattered blanket; no silver, no gold, only a few sous and two-sou pieces, just enough to pay for a meagre premier dejeuner! He had cleared out Gecko the day before, and spent the proceeds (ten francs, at least) in one night's riotous living--pleasures in which Gecko had had no share; and he could think of no one to borrow money from but Little Billee, Taffy, and the Laird, whom he had neglected and left untapped for days. So he slipped into his clothes, and looked at himself in what remained of a little zinc mirror, and found that his forehead left little to be desired, but that his eyes and temples were decidedly grimy. "Wherefore, he poured a little water out of a little jug into a little basin, and, twisting the corner of his pocket-handkerchief round his dirty forefinger, he delicately dipped it, and removed the offending stains. His fingers, he thought, would do very well for another day or two as they were; he ran them through his matted black mane, pushed it behind his ears, and gave it the twist he liked (a...</p>

Trilby; A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Maurier, George Du

Classics

General Books LLC

<p>Famed novel of the Gilded Age recounts the rise and fall of young Trilby O'Ferrall, artist's model and aspiring singer, who falls under the spell of the evil musician Svengali. Story told against the colorful backdrop of student life in the Latin Quarter of Paris in the 1880s. Reproduced from a luxury limited edition, enhanced with over 100 illustrations by du Maurier, best known as an artist and contributor to Punch. 119 line illus. 1 photograph (of the author).</p>

Trilby

Literary

Dover Publications

Peter Ibbetson (Large Print Edition)

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Peter Ibbetson

Contemporary

An Appendix to Trilby: Translations and Notes

Hawley, John G.

History

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Pictures of English society

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