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Excerpt from The Keeper of the Door
She made a face at him, and gave the hammock a vicious twitch which caused him to rock with some violence for Several seconds. AS he was Wont pathetically to remark, everyone bullied him because he was small and possessed only one arm, having Shed the other by inadvertence some where on the borders of the Indian Empire. Certainly Olga - his half-brother's eldest child - treated him' With scant' respect, though She never allowed any one else to be other than polite to him in her hearing. But then She and Nick had been pals from the beginning of things, and this surely entitled her to a certain licence in her dealings With him. Nick, too, was such a darling; he never minded anything. 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.
