The Daughter of the Storage: And Other Things in Prose and Verse
W. D. Howells
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(Forgotten Books, Jan. 25, 2018)
Excerpt from The Daughter of the Storage: And Other Things in Prose and VerseNow, when the same young fellow unlocked the iron door and set it wide, he said he would get them a man, and he got Mrs. Forsyth a gilt arm chair from some furniture going into an adjoining twenty-dollar room. She sat down in it, and Of course, She said, the pieces I want will be at the very back and the very bottom. Why don't you get yourself a chair, too, Ambrose? What are you looking at?With his eyes on the neighboring furniture he answered, Seems to be the wreck Of a million aire's happy home; parlor and kitchen utensils and Office furniture all in white and gold.Horrors, yes! Mrs. Forsyth said, without turning her head from studying her trunks, as if She might divine their contents from their outside.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.