preston

Strikes a note of modernity. . . These tripping numbers.—"The Preston Telegraph." 🔊

I learned afterward that he was the son of an unsuccessful and deceased bookseller in Preston, but had inherited an annuity of three hundred pounds from a married aunt, and had no surviving relatives of any kind. 🔊

But there was still a spiritual pathos about him, sharpened for me now by the possibility that even the praises of The Preston Telegraph might not have been forthcoming had he not been the son of a Preston man. 🔊

He had become a plain, unvarnished Preston man. 🔊

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