Mrs. Lancelot: A Comedy of Assumptions
Maurice Hewlett
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(Forgotten Books, Jan. 12, 2019)
Excerpt from Mrs. Lancelot: A Comedy of AssumptionsBut Charles was not at all cool, nor was his heart beating at all steadily in his breast. It was necessary to his self-esteem that he should appear so, and perhaps no one will ever realise the efforts that he made to get through that languid summer afternoon with his accustomed method and dili gence; but cool he was not - neither then nor afterwards, until the conviction had settled down in his mind that a great career was opening to him. He had, I may say, always suspected it (for no one, in his quiet way, had a higher opinion of him than himself); and, now here it was - dawning upon him! When this conviction, I say, had settled itself in, his elation crystallised into a magnificent gravity, a lofty expectancy which did not add to his social charm. He had always been serious, and was now portentous, under the shadow of Lord Monthermer's eyelid; he ab sorbed himself in his work, and when he went out into the world exhaled it like an aura. He confided his immense secret to very few but Mrs. Mayduke was one of those few. He told her.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.