Our House (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Canby, Henry Seidel) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Our House In the Roberts´ dining-room a match flame sparkled momentarily upon the dark mahogany of the sideboard and the cheerful golden oak of glass cabinets opposite. Another and brighter lit spectrally the stiff family portraits hung above. George, the colored "waiter," was lighting the new candles beneath their rosy shades, humming tunelessly as he moved along the table - "Jee-ru-saluhum, Jee-ru-saluhum, If ev-ur I take my stan´ - Oh, happy Ian´ I´se coram´ Lawd. I´se coram´ Lawd." When a match went out he grumbled and scratched another on his alpaca trousers. He did not like the new candles, with their springs, and light so faint that you couldn´t see how much was left in the dishes. His idea of a party was to light all the gas and then fix up the napkins to look like birds or bouquets, the way they did at Cape May. "Seven of ´um" - he counted the chairs to make sure there were places enough - "but Miss Mattie she don´ eat no waffles. A plateful ´11 jes about go round. 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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