Blackwood´s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 122
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Excerpt from Blackwood´s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 122: July December 1877 I humbly desire, dear readers, to please you if I can, and therefore hasten to gratify an aspiration which lurks in all novel-readers´ heart - to "get into the think of the business at once." So come with me and be summarily introduced to one or two principal personages of this little drama. Let us take them unawares, let us surprise them while they sit at meat, - eating, drinking, and (some of them, at least) making merry, on the margin of the Lake of Como, in one of the pleasantest hotels in Europe, the "Bellevue," at Cadenabbia. And do thou, old Time, turn back in thy flight a few short years, and suffer us to enter the table-d´hôte room of the hotel in question, on the bright evening of an early summer day in 187-. The banquet is spread. The guests are assembles or assembling. They are of many nationalities, of diverse ranks, of most ages; each of the three sexes is represented, for more than one palpable curate bows his meek head over the fleshpot. You find the noise a little trying at first, don´t you? The crockery does seem to be possessed with devils, and every glass in the room must have St Vitus´s dance. Every one seems to be impatient at first - hungry, angry, vociferous. What tempers these waiters must have! Outside the window a string-band is playing a selection from the ´Barbiere.´ Could anything be more appropriate? "Figaro qua, Figaro là!" shrieks the band. "Kellner!" "Garçon!" "Cameriere!" "Waiter!" shout the guest; and through all the crush and the bustle these admirable men glide about - here, there, everywhere, breathless and perspiring, but full of polyglot politeness and attention. The only calm, still, cool-looking object in the room is that tremendous head-waiter in the buff waistcoast, standing near the door, in Jove-like serenity. The guest, as they enter, pause before him to ask where they may place themselves. In that august presence they appear to peak and dwindle. 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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