Once a Week, Vol. 12
ISBN: 978-13-341-4988-7
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Liczba stron: 736
Oprawa: Miękka
Wydanie: 2018 r.
Język: angielski
Dostępność: aktualnie niedostępny
Excerpt from Once a Week, Vol. 12: An Illustrated Miscellany of Literature, Art, Science, and Popular Information; December, 1864, to June, 1865<br><br>She was sitting on a couch far away from her mother and hostess when Theo entered; looking not exactly out of temper or contemp tuons, - her face was naturally too brightly frank and good-humoured for that, - but wearily fatigued at the repetition of that which she had heard so many times before. For her mamma was giving the new comer Mrs. Leigh a history in outline of the faults and follies of the denizens of the establishment, and Sydney Scott was Sick of the subject.<br><br>She was a pretty girl with great deep-grey eyes, a broad brow, and a very fair delicate complexion, - a short plump girl with tiny white hands, and a well-cut laughing mouth. But her greatest charm lay in that aforesaid expression of frankness and in her apparently effortless bonhomie.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This 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.