It is strange to me, Jock Calder of West Inch, to feel that though now, in the very centre of the nineteenth century, I am but five-and-fifty years of age, and though it is only once in a week perhaps that my wife can pluck out a little grey bristle from over my ear, yet I have lived in a time when the thoughts and the ways of men were as different as though it were another planet from this. For when I walk in my fields I can see, down Berwick way, the little fluffs of white smoke which tell me of this strange new hundred-legged beast, with coals for food and a thousand men in its belly, for ever crawling over the border

Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan
Publisher: EbooksLib
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales
Pages: 00000 (Encrypted EPUB)
On Sale: 2010-04-21
SKU-13/ISBN: 9781412183598
Category: Fiction : Classics