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The Disentanglers
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Title: The Disentanglers
Author: Andrew Lang
Release Date: November 8, 2005 [eBook #17031]
Language: English
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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE DISENTANGLERS***
Transcribed from the 1903 Longmans, Green, and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
THE DISENTANGLERS by Andrew Lang
with illustrations by H. J. Ford
Second Impression
Longmans, Green, and Co. 39 Paternoster Row, London New York and Bombay 1903
TO HERBERT HILLS, ESQ. These Studies OF LIFE AND CHARACTER ARE DEDICATED
PREFACE
It has been suggested to the Author that the incident of the Berbalangs, in The Adventure of the Fair American, is rather improbable. He can only refer the sceptical to the perfectly genuine authorities cited in his footnotes.
I. THE GREAT IDEA
The scene was a dusky shabby little room in Ryder Street. To such caves many repair whose days are passed, and whose food is consumed, in the clubs of the adjacent thoroughfare of cooperative palaces, Pall Mall. The furniture was battered and dingy; the sofa on which Logan sprawled had a certain historic interest: it was covered with cloth of horsehair, now seldom found by the amate