Robert Aitken
Published: 2015-09-27
Total Pages: 360
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Excerpt from The Golden Horseshoe A noisy knocking startled Corbyn, brush in hand before his canvas and scowling blackly at the bare studio walls. It preluded the entrance of a prosperous-looking youth, trimly attired in tight-fitting garments of pronouncedly English cut, and carrying a cane. From the soles of his neat shoes to the crown of his hat he was the very pink and pattern of decorous propriety. Even the plain leather watch-guard he wore outside his double-breasted waistcoat seemed but to emphasize the solidity of his social and financial standing; it was as though he had no need to advertise by means of a gold chain the fact that to the unseen end of it there was attached the eighteen-carat diamond-capped chronometer with which his great-grandfather had timed the attack at Waterloo. He greeted the preoccupied artist genteelly and said with suave directness, "I wish you'd lend me a V, old chap. 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.
