Beadle's Dime Novels No. 38: The Wrong Man — page 24: what you’re looking at

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26 THE WRONG MAX.- CHAPTER II! THE VILLAGERS. Crura. Bonjour, Monsieur Le Beau, what's th> news: Le Beav. Why, this that I speak of —As You Lixs It. And th the wi tempests the while, Dostaatictiegunie shall the night begaile; Or literary taste its charms impart, To please the fancy and improve the heart. PartinG from the peddler, Dudley pursued his way towa.d the log-cabin, mentioned as occupying a green bluff, round whose base the Ohio swept in one of those graceful curves P which diversify the course of that magnificent stream. He twenty ; his manly countenance lighted by bright, bine eyes ; his lips wearing a quiet, habitual smile, denoting amenity of disposition. He had arrived, some four or five months prior to the date of our story, at the -little village which we shal! name Adrianopolis. He stated, on landing, that he was on his way to New Orleans, and expressed an intention of soon re- suming his journey. But day after day, and week after week passed, and still he lingered in the neighborhood, until, finally, he seemed to haye forgotten or wholly abandoned his _ in Adrianopolis of old, a class of industrious people, whose philarthropy led them to study the affairs of strangers, even to the neglect of their own. By these, various causes Were assigned for the delay of Charles Dudley—some of them of 4 description not exceedingly flattering to his character. The information on which most of the current rumors were founded, if traced to its source, rested with the post- master of the village—a busy, loquacious little gentleman, with a humpback, who officiated in the double capacity of tavern. keeper and postmaster; and who, from the laudah'e motive of furnishing -entertainment for his customers in one depart- ment of his vocation, was suspected of looking rather more eiceely. into. the contents. of the.amal. weekly budget of the conmicldooks.com