Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1880 — Too Much for the Book Agent. [ARTICLE]

Too Much for the Book Agent.

A very prepossessing young lady, canvassing for a popular book, stepped into the office of a broker, and finding him apparently at leisure, asked him to look at her book. The gentleman informed her that it would only be a waste of time, as he could not purchase it. “Oh, never mind that I” ejaculated the vivacious young woman; “it won't cost any thing to look at it, even if you don’t buy. I should like to have you read some portions of it, and see what it is.” The accommodating broker took the volume, and glancing at the title-page, commenced a perusal of the introduction. This finished, he began at the first chapter, and read carefully and leisurely along. It was about nine o’clock when he commenced, and an hour passed silently away, when the book agent began to show signs of nervousness, which were apparently unnoticed by the broker, for he never took his eyes from the volume, but read steadily on. Eleven o’clock came, and the lady began to walk smartly around the room, glancing occasionally out of the windows? At noon the broker was still reading, and the agent wore a decidedly troubled countenance. A few moments before one o’clock the broker laid the book down leisurely donned his overcoat mid hat, and remarked: “That b a very good book. I am sony I canndt read more of it, but lam obliged to go to dinner. If you call this afternoon, I will continue reading it” • a singular feet that not one of the imperial Napoleons lias died in France, or on French soil. Napoleon L, the founder of the family.diod a prisoner on the British island of St Helena, in. the South Atlantic Ocean; his sonTfrapoleon !L, died in Austria; his nephew Napoleon 111., died an exile in England,

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