A Story of Many Colors, or Romance in a Lodging-House

Excerpt from A Story of Many Colors, or Romance in a Lodging-HouseMrs Brown, a good-natured, stout, optimistically minded sort of body faced a luncheon basket and ate and drank with vigor if not with precision. Miss Leah P. Gray, attenuated, sharp of feature, irreproachable in dress, exceedingly communicative and perpetually trying to do something for every body to set them at their ease, as it were, pressed the comestibles, with a running commentary on the merits of such as were of home manufacture, upon the attention of her guests.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.