Books with title The Social Butterfly

Excerpt from The Silver ButterflyHayden was back in New York again after several years spent in the uttermost parts of the earth. He had been building railroads in South America, Africa, and China, and had maintained so many lodges in this or that wilderness that he really feared he might be curiously awkward in adapting himself to the conventional requirements of civilization. In his long roundabout journey home he had stopped for a few weeks in both London and Paris; but to his mental discomfort, they had but served to accentuate his loneliness and whet his longings for the dear, unforgotten life of his native city, that intimate, easy exist ence, wherein relatives, not too near, congenial friends and familiar haunts played so important a part.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.

A Children's Book. 5-year-old Laqesha and her parents visit a family member at a country home in Lodi, New Jersey. On that sleepy summer afternoon of their arrival, Laqesha encounters a beautiful and mysterious butterfly that shows her an enchanting place she never knew could exist. A childhood dream then metamorphoses into something of a strange curiosity when Laqesha becomes a big part of “Mr. Butterfly’s” life in more ways than she could ever imagine…Find out what happens in this intriguing story!