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Excerpt from The House on the Mall
He stood for perhaps two minutes admiring the sun on the river and the faint Shade Of the green of Spring on the meadows on the further bank, with a softness and wistfulness in his fine brown eyes, somewhat out of keeping with his exceeding solemn face. Then he pressed the bell and knocked. 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.