Anna Fuller
Published: 2017-12-19
Total Pages: 292
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Excerpt from A Bookful of Girls Upon which the speaker, allowing her eyes to close definitively, took on the appearance of gentle inanition which characterised nine-tenths of her fellow voyagers, ranged side by side in their steamer-chairs along the deck. They had passed the Azores, that lovely May morning, and were headed for Cape St. Vincent, the good old Lorelei lounging along at her easiest gait, the which is also her rapidest. For there is nothing more deceptive than a steamer's behaviour on a calm day when the sea offers no perceptible resistance to the keel. Here and there an insatiable novel reader held a paper-covered volume be fore his nose, but more often the book had slid to the deck, to be picked up by Gus tav, the prince of deck-stewards, and care fully tucked in among the wraps of the unconscious owner. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.
