The Misfortunes of Peter Faber, And Other Sketches
The book The Misfortunes of Peter Faber, And Other Sketches was written by author Darley, Felix Octavius Carr, 1822-1888 Here you can read free online of The Misfortunes of Peter Faber, And Other Sketches book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Misfortunes of Peter Faber, And Other Sketches a good or bad book?
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But yet there is a difference — Yes — decidedly — the matter here is beyond the possi- oility of a dispute. There isa difference — lamentable enough, you may term it — between the Singleton Snippe that was, and the Single ton Snippe that is. The Singleton Snippe that was, is not now an existence; and the probabilities are that he never will be again. Nothing is stable in this world but instability ; and the livery-stable of to-day is converted into something else on the moiTow, never more to be... a stable, unstable stable. And so with men as well as with horses — for this perpetual revolution 110 NEAL^S SKKTCHES. of human affairs goeth not backward, except when the rope breaks on an inclined plane, making it a down-hill sort of a business. Snippe is on the down-hill — rather. The Singleton Snippe that is, stands picturesquely and pictorially before you — patiently, as it were, and on a mon- ument. And now, was there ever — we ask the question of those ^ho remember Snippe in his primitive and natural state — ■ was there ever a merrier fellow than the said Singleton Snippe, in the original, if we may term it so — before the said Singleton was translated into his present condition, and be- came tamed down from his erratic, independent eccentiicities to the patient tolerance of the band-box and the bundle?
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