Excerpt from Jupiter Eight<br><br>He leaned his elbow on his mahogany writing table, a copy of a piece in the National Museum. He glanced at the sheets of stationery on it, hand some, embossed in gold, 'atelier Duroc. Interior Decoration'. The same legend was on his door; he could see it reversed through the frosted glass. In the outer office sat Florence the stenographer, purelyan interior decoration herself, since she seldom had anything to do, but an indispensable accessory now that his business was becoming important, just as indispensable as the rosewood piano with the works of Bach on it, which he couldn't play.<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.