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Excerpt from Scheherazade, Vol. 3 of 3: A London Night's Entertainment
Chloris white was one of those utterly corrupt, abandoned, and dangerous women in whom certain noble and lovable qualities flourish with a rank and prolific luxuriance impossible in colder and better balanced natures. She had liked George Lauriston from the first, with the impulsive -yet alto gether undiscriminating liking of a woman clever enough, while knowing the worst side of men thoroughly, to understand that there is a better, and to work upon that also when it suited her purpose. When chance threw the young officer in her daughter's way, she. 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.
