Stories by American Authors: Miss. Grief; Love in Old Cloathes; Two Buckets in a Well; Friend Barton's Concern; An Inspired Lobbyist; Lost in the Fog (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Stories by American Authors: Miss. Grief; Love in Old Cloathes; Two Buckets in a Well; Friend Barton's Concern; An Inspired Lobbyist; Lost in the Fog

One evening, upon returning to my lodgings, my man Simpson informed me that a person had called in the afternoon, and upon learning that I was absent had left not a card, but her name Miss Grief. The title lingered - Miss Grief Grief has not so far visited me here, I said to myself, dismissing Simpson and seeking my little balcony for a final smoke, and she shall not now. I shall take care to be 'not at home' to her if she continues to call. And then I fell to thinking of Isabel Abercrombie, in whose society I had spent that and many evenings they were golden thoughts.

The next day there was an excursion; it was late when I reached my rooms, and again Simpson informed me that Miss Grief had called.

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Excerpt from Stories by American Authors: Miss. Grief; Love in Old Cloathes; Two Buckets in a Well; Friend Barton's Concern; An Inspired Lobbyist; Lost in the Fog

"A Conceited Fool" is a not uncommon expression. Now, I know that I am not a fool, but I also know that I am conceited. But, candidly, can it be helped if one happens to be young, well and strong, passably good-looking, with some money that one has inherited and more that one has earned - in all, enough to make life comfortable - and if upon this foundation rests also the pleasant superstructure of a literary success? The success is deserved, I think: certainly it was not lightly gained. Yet even with this I fully appreciate its rarity. Thus, I find myself very well entertained in life: I have all I wish in the way of society, and a deep, though of course carefully concealed, satisfaction in my own little fame; which fame I foster by a gentle system of non-interference.

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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.