For Better, for Worse (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Maxwell, W. B.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from For Better, for Worse It has become a trite observation that you cannot have a home in London. You live in London, but your real home is somewhere else, or you have not one at all. In this sense Mrs. Gilmour and her family had always been homeless. They lived in the large house at a corner of a short road that runs out of Sloane Street, and they lived nowhere else. They were very well off, with everything they could desire, paying the modest super-tax of those happy days without distress, and yet they could not make themselves really comfortable: unconsciously they banished from them any imitation or transient illusion of the proper home feeling. There was an atmosphere of needless hurry throughout the house. Having nothing of importance to do, its inmates seemed invariably behindhand with their trifling tasks. They had no time to think. They omitted to shut doors behind them. They talked incessantly, in a running debate, about the little difficulties that suddenly confronted them. Thus, for instance, old Mrs. Gilmour, opening the library door and leaving it open, announced that she was in trouble about the address of a friend. "You can find it in the red book," said Emily Joyce, her married daughter, who was ensconced in an armchair by the fire and toasting her patient leather shoes. "No, I can´t find it," said Mrs. Gilmour. "Oh, it must be there," said Mrs. Joyce. "It´s the book itself I can´t find," said Mrs. Gilmour. "I think it may have been left in the car. 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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