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The Gay Adventure: A Romance: read and explore
The story centers on Lionel Mortimer, a charming yet impractical young man, who finds…
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- Author
- Richard Bird
- Form
- novel
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THE IMPOVERISHED HERO AND THE SURPASSING DAMSEL Mr. Lionel Mortimer was a young gentleman of few intentions and no private means. Good-humored, by no means ill-looking, and with engaging manners, he was the type of man of whom one would have prophesied great things. His natural gaiety and address were more than enough to carry him over the early stages of acquaintanceship, but subsequent meetings were doomed to end in disillusion. His cheerful outlook on life would be as much …
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