Excerpt from Stanley Thorn, Vol. 3 of 3 Now, it happened that, in proportion as the intimacy between Amelia and Miss Johnson became closer and more affectionate, the friend ship subsisting between Bob and his venerable friend, - both of whom had been handsomely rewarded for their exertions during the contest, - became warmer and more firm. They never appeared to be perfectly comfortable apart they saw and drank with each other every day with the strict regularity of the sun and the venerable gentleman met with so much kind feeling, and withal such distin guished consideration in Stanley's kitchen, that almost every evening he called with the View of playing at the noble game of cribbage with Bob. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.