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Cæsar's Column; A Story of the Twentieth Century by Edmund Boisgilbert M. D. [pseud.]
Csar's Column A Story of the Twentieth Century by Edmund Boisgilbert M D - pseud. Author:Ignatius Donnelly General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1890 Original Publisher: F. J. Schulte Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos 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 s... more »elect from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. My Adventure. My Dear Heinrich : I little supposed when I wrote you yesterday that twenty-four hours could so completely change my circumstances. Then I was a dweller in the palatial Darwin Hotel, luxuriating in all its magnificence. Now I am hiding in a strange house and trembling for my liberty; -- but I will tell you all. Yesterday morning, after I had disposed by sample of our wool, and had called upon the assayer of ores, but without finding him, to show him the specimens of our mineral discoveries, I returned to the hotel, and there, after obtaining directions from one of the clerks at the "Bureau of Information," I took the elevated train to the great Central Park. I shall not pause to describe at length the splendors of this wonderful place; the wild beasts roaming about among the trees, apparently at dangerous liberty, but really inclosed by fine steel wire fences, almost invisible to the eye; the great lakes full of the different water fowl of the world; the air thick with birds distinguished for the sweetness of their song or the brightness of their plumage; the century-old trees, of great size and artistically grouped; beautiful children playing upon the greensward, accompanied by nurses and male servants; the whole scene constituting a holiday picture. Between the trees everywhere I saw the white and gleaming statues of the manyhundreds of great men and women who have adorned the history of this country during the last two hundred years -- poets, painters, musicians, soldiers, philanthropists, statesmen. After feasting my eyes for some ti...« less