Fergus Hume eBooks

The Green Mummy. E-book. Formato EPUB Fergus Hume   -  Librorium Editions, 2026  - 

“I am very angry,” pouted the maid.“In heaven's name, why?” questioned the bachelor.“You have, so to speak, bought me.”“Impossible: your price is prohibitive.”“Indeed, when a thousand pounds—”“You are worth fifty and a hundred times as much. Pooh!”“That interjection doesn't answer my question.”“I don't think it is one which needs answering,” said the young man lightly; “there are more important things to talk about than pounds, shillings, and sordid pence.”“Oh, indeed! Such as—”“Love, on a day such as this is. Look at the sky, blue as your eyes; at the sunshine, golden as your hair.”

The Solitary Farm. E-book. Formato EPUB Fergus Hume   -  Librorium Editions, 2021  - 

The young minister and the elderly skipper discussed the subject of marriage in a shabby antique room of small size, which had the appearance of having been used to more aristocratic cornpany. The ’dark-oak panelled walls, the grotesquely-carved Ceiling-beams, the Dutch-tiled fire-place, with its ungainly brass dogs, and the deep slanting embrasure of the lozenge-paned casement, suggested Georgian beaux and belles dancing buckram minutes, or at least hard-riding country squires plotting Jacobite restoration. But these happenings were in the long-ago, but this stately Essex manor-house had declined woefully from its high estate, and now sheltered a rough and ready mariner, who camped, rather than dwelt, under its roof.