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James Payn

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English novelist and editor (1830–1898)

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  • The Talk of the Town By James Payn Author of ‘By Proxy’ etc. etc. In two volumes Vol. II
  • The Talk of the Town By James Payn Author of ‘By Proxy’ etc. etc. In two volumes Vol. I
  • Lost Sir Massingberd Volume I
  • Bred in the Bone
  • Some Private Views

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  • May he perish, inch by inch, within reach of the aid that shall never come, ere the God of the poor take him into his hand.
  • To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life a little too far and ridding us of his presence altogether.
  • I had never had a piece of toast  Particularly long and wide,But fell upon the sanded floor,  And always on the buttered side.
  • He was no coward, but it had suddenly struck him that the present was a very ill-chosen time for a row with his younger relative, however successful might be the issue. Such violence should not go unpunished, but vengeance is a dish that can be eaten cold.

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James Payn
date of birth
1830-02-28
date of death
1898-03-25
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