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Excerpt from The Parvenu Family; Or Phoebe, Vol. 1 of 3: Girl and Wife
At Chapone House there was, indeed, even a region known as the office, with a general air of mahogany, like a banking house, where a regular office book-keeper dealt with ledgers, and a store of cash, and to which Miss Cooke sent up or down in a dignified fashion, for accounts or other financial information. 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.