The Lightning Conductor Discovers America
Charles Norris Williamson
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(Forgotten Books, June 27, 2017)
Excerpt from The Lightning Conductor Discovers AmericaThat's all about us. I think. 80, speaking of girls. I'll tell you about the one I mentioned. I want to tell you. Because Jack and I are both passionately interested and perhaps a little curious. Consequently I expect her fate and ours, as the palmists say. Will be mixed together while we live on Long Island. In that case. She's sure to be served up to you toasted, iced, sugared. And spiced. In tu ture letters, so she may as well he introduced to you now The Countess of lanebmiss Patricia Moore. Nice name, isn't it? Almost as nice as yours before you were married '0 Monty. She has informed me. However, that she hates the Patricia part because it sounds as if she turned up her nose in pride of birth. Whereas God turned it up when He made hehr else her nurse let her lie on it when she was asleep. Anyhow, it's tilted just right, to make her look like one of those wonderful girls on American magazine covers, with darling little profiles that show the long curve of lashes on their ofi, as well as their near, eyelid. You know that engaging effect?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.