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OctoberOctober is the tenth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 31 days. From the Latin oct for "eight" (it was originally the eighth month of the year, before January and February were inserted).October begins on the same day of week as January, except in leap years.
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See Alsopresented itself, he felt himself ready to embrace any adventure
conducted him.
At home (where he was a clerk in the counting-house of a leading
have come to him, he would have looked upon himself as little
time in a foreign country, surrounded by such strange and unusual
wish for some extraordinary and altogether unusual experience
heretofore been altogether a stranger.
In the street.html">street where he stood, which was of a shining whiteness
incredible distinction, he observed, stretching before him, long
luxuriance of tropical.html">tropical foliage.
In these gardens, and set close to the street, stood several
of the windows of which were raised to admit of the freer
there issued forth bright lights, together with the exhilarating
accompanied by the tinkling music of a spinet or of a guitar. An
garments, and adorned with gay and startling colors, passed him
warmth of the night, together with all these unusual sights and
inhabitant of some extraordinary land of enchantment and
he had heretofore passed his entire existence.
Before continuing this narrative the reader may here be informed
supercargo of the ship SUSANNA HAYES, of Philadelphia; that he
servant to the merchant house of the worthy Jeremiah Doolittle
this opportunity at once of gratifying an inclination for foreign
his individual profit. The SUSANNA HAYES had entered Kingston
in those tropical latitudes, whither his fancy and his
filing the accounts of invoices from foreign parts.
It might be finally added that, had he at all conceived how soon
be gratified, his romantic aspirations might have been somewhat
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