Excerpt from Castaway, Vol. 1: A Novel
Only two men remained in the room where the dinner had been held. Both were middle aged, but one had retained his figure, and a certain unmistakable soldier-like smartness, while the other, close verging on corpulency, unbuttoned his jacket and ung himself back in his chair, with an air of one accustomed to subordinate everything to his sense of per sonal comfort.
His companion watched these proceedings with a certain amount of curiosity, and when they were completed said, with a laugh.
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Only two men remained in the room where the dinner had been held. Both were middle aged, but one had retained his figure, and a certain unmistakable soldier-like smartness, while the other, close verging on corpulency, unbuttoned his jacket and ung himself back in his chair, with an air of one accustomed to subordinate everything to his sense of per sonal comfort.
His companion watched these proceedings with a certain amount of curiosity, and when they were completed said, with a laugh.
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.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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