My Little Girl: A Novel
Walter Besant
Hardcover
(Forgotten Books, Feb. 16, 2019)
Excerpt from My Little Girl: A NovelGeorge's Island and its dependencies, gives dinners to the e'lile, balls to society in gen eral, receives whom the Colonial Secretary sends to him, and composes long despatches recommending reforms which will make the colony a paradise. He is obliged to write them, to show his zeal, though it must be a fearful bore. And, when they come home, some young clerk in the Colonial Office, who knows as much of Palmiste as of Timbuctoo, annotates the labored thoughts of the. Experienced statesman, and snubs him. This done, according to rule, the despatches are put in a book, and carefully bound up to be preserved forever. There are now so many of these hapless children of thought, smothered as soon as born, and kept as calf-bound mummies in Downing Street, that a few years since they were compelled to move them all to the cellars. Their weight was pressing out and crushing down the walls; and it was feared that their presence, longer contin ued, might possibly result in the demolition of the whole fabric. Shades of departed governors, pensionless wanderers by Brigh ton sands, consider with gratitude the Nemesis that waits on the contempt of your labors!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.