Bob Martin's Little Girl Author:David Christie Murray General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1892 Original Publisher: J. A. Taylor and company Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction / Short Stories Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typ... more »os or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER VI. Hetheridge was once more up country; this time with a travelling companion in the person of Monsieur Dom. Monsieur Dom was a vigneron, and had been exported from his native place by an Australian winegrower some two or three years earlier. His first engagement, from one cause or another, resulting in failure, the expert found his services somewhat at a discount, and was getting into the lowest financial waters when chance threw him in the way of his new patron. There was scarcely any possible form of business into which at this time Hetheridge was not ready to venture. He had already more money than he had ever hoped to own -- more than he could now hope to spend, or to make any reasonable use of except for the mere sterile purpose of increase. But a new purpose was like a new toy. It interested and amused him for a time.. For a week or two, at least, he could throw himself heart and soul into a novel enterprise, and at such times he would enjoy a blessed surcease of his mental miseries. So soon, however, as the accustomed business began to pall, his old hopeless hatred of George Redwood, and his old hopeless love of George Redwood's wife, would come storming back upon him.. Neither the love nor the hate seemed to have grown feebler with the intervening years. And there were days and nights when the man's thoughts were a veritable hell to him. He struck a thousand blows in fancy at his distant enemy. He decoyed him into countless a...« less