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Excerpt from The Bronze Venus
But it was a remarkable room to have been created by a man Who had begun life as a navvy, and it argued enthusiasms and emotions rarely to be found in that valuable class of the com munity. Josiah Fairbrother was a self - made man who knew what to do with his money - a mm waif. By some streak of heredity, not necessary to investigate, he had been born with a sense of beauty, and when his other more practical endowments of mind raised him from the railway and road-making, he developed aesthetic tastes and employed a gigantic fortune in the manner that his bent inclined. 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.
