Michael O'halloran (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Michael O'halloran He sent one hasty glance toward the gutter. In it stood a sullen-faced newsboy of a size that precluded longer success at paper selling, because public sympathy goes to the little fellows. Before him stood one of these same little fellows, lean, tow-haired, and blue-eyed, clean of face, neat in dress, and with a peculiar modulation in his voice that caught Douglas squarely in the heart. He turned again to the ¿owers, but as his eyes revelled in beauty, his ears, despite the shuf¿e of passing feet, and the Clamour of cars, lost not one word of what was passing in the gutter, and with each, slow anger surged higher. Mickey, well aware that his first blow would be all the satisfaction coming to him, put the force of his being into his punch, and at the same instant Douglas thrust forth a hand that had pulled for Oxford and was yet in condition. 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.