Tommy and Co., by Jerome K. Jerome
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Title: Tommy and Co.
Author: Jerome K. Jerome
Release Date: July 10, 2007 Language: English
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Transcribed from the 1904 Hutchinson and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
TOMMY AND CO.
BY
JEROME K. JEROME
AUTHOR OF
“PAUL KELVER,” “IDLE THOUGHTS OF AN IDLE FELLOW ,” “THREE MEN IN A BOAT ,” ETC.
LONDON
HUTCHINSON AND CO.
PATERNOSTER ROW
1904
STORY THE FIRST—Peter Hope plans his Prospectus
“Come in!” said Peter Hope. Peter Hope was tall and thin, clean-shaven but for a pair of side whiskers close-cropped and terminating just below the ear, with hair of the kind referred to by sympathetic barbers as “getting a little thin on the top, sir,” but arranged with economy, that everywhere is poverty’s true helpmate. About Mr. Peter Hope’s linen, which was white though somewhat frayed, there was a selfassertiveness that invariably arrested the attention of even the most casual observer. Decidedly there was too much of it—its ostentation aided and abetted by the retiring nature of the cut-away coat, ...
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