A Fool´s Paradise
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| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Lovejoy, Benjamin G.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from A Fool´s Paradise: A Story of Fashionable Life in Washington Upon the outer ring of social sphere She stood and gazed, but never could draw near The inner circle of her hopes and prayers, Until a very lucky "rise in shares" As sudden came as Bay-of-Fundy tide, And money gained what merit was denied. Camilla - for Camilla is her name - A pretty babe into this bad world came; Through colic, teething, and the other woes To infancy assigned, she goes and grows, Until she lovely girlhood´s level reaches. Her mother then this social science teaches: "There is a world of Fashion, one of State - In this the men, in that our sex are great. ´Tis there we rule, or, if no sceptre own, We live and breathe and move around the throne; It is a land of pure delight, my child." "Heaven?" Camilla asks in accents mild. "Not Canaan, dear, not bliss of piety, But goal of woman´s hope - Society; 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.
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