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Excerpt from The Head of the Firm, Vol. 2 of 3: A Novel
Though a month had passed since that day in the City when all things were arranged satisfactorily, when She returned home with the assured conviction her fairy godfather, Shawn Fermoy, had really sent out of his grave a chariot and horses to take her away for ever from the buying and selling of green stuff, from the care of providing daily bread for a large family, from the dreadful surround ings of her hard, exhausting life, she had not yet grown accustomed to the change in her fortunes, and seemed unable to Shake off an uncomfortable conviction that in some way she had acted wrongly in severing herself entirely from the Battersea house hold. Yet what could I do Mr. Philip?' She said, and he answered, Nothing.' 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.
