The Dead Alive - Wilkie Collins - Books - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platf - 9781499569636 - May 16, 2014
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The Dead Alive

"HEART all right," said the doctor. "Lungs all right. No organic disease that I can discover. Philip Lefrank, don't alarm yourself. You are not going to die yet. The disease you are suffering from is?overwork. The remedy in your case is?rest." So the doctor spoke, in my chambers in the Temple (London); having been sent for to see me about half an hour after I had alarmed my clerk by fainting at my desk. I have no wish to intrude myself needlessly on the reader's attention; but it may be necessary to add, in the way of explanation, that I am a "junior" barrister in good practice. I come from the channel Island of Jersey. The French spelling of my name (Lefranc) was Anglicized generations since?in the days when the letter "k" was still used in England at the end of words which now terminate in "c." We hold our heads high, nevertheless, as a Jersey family. It is to this day a trial to my father to hear his son described as a member of the English bar.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released May 16, 2014
ISBN13 9781499569636
Publishers CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages 50
Dimensions 150 × 3 × 226 mm   ·   81 g
Language English  

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