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Identifier: throughmagicdoor00doyluoft
Title: Through the magic door
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930
Subjects: Books and reading
Publisher: London Murray
Contributing Library: Robarts – University of Toronto
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s of Pugilistica, given me years ago by my oldfriend, Robert Barr, a mine in which you cannever pick for half an hour without strikingit rich. Ala3 ! for the horrible slang of thosedays, the vapid witless Corinthian talk, withits ogles and its fogies, its pointless jokes, itsmaddening habit of italicizing a word or twoin every sentence. Even these stern anddesperate encounters, fit sports for the menof Albuera and Waterloo, become dull andvulgar, in that dreadful jargon. You have toturn to Hazlitts account of the encounterbetween the Gasman and the Bristol Bull, tofeel the savage strength of it all. It is ahardened reader who does not wince even inprint before that frightful right-hander whichfelled the giant, and left him in red ruinfrom eyebrow to jaw. But even if there beno Hazlitt present to describe such a combatit is a poor imagination which is not fired bythe deeds of the humble heroes who livedonce so vividly upon earth, and now onlyappeal to faithful ones in these little-read
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*$ #? THE DYESG GLADIATOR LISTENED WITH 1 STENT 1NTKF.J – THROUGH THE MAGIC DOOR 105 pages. They were picturesque creatures, menof great force of character and will, whoreached the limits of human bravery andendurance. There is Jackson on the cover,gold upon brown, gentleman Jackson, Jack-son of the balustrade calf and the noblo head,who wrote his name with an 88-pound weightdangling from his little finger. Here is a pen-portrait of him by one whoknew him well— I can see him now as I saw him in84 walking down Holborn Hill, towardsSmithfield. He had on a scarlet coat workedin gold at the buttonholes, ruffles and frillof fine lace, a small white stock, no collar(they were not then invented), a looped hatwith a broad black band, burl knee-breechesand long silk strings, striped white silk stock-ings, pumps and paste buckles; his waist-coat was pale blue satin, sprigged with white.It was impossible to look on his fine amplechest, his noble shoulders, his waist (if any-thing too small),
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