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Excerpt from Dr. Nicholas Stone
Seldom have I been more contented with my lot than I was on this morning in the early part of 1902. It was the end of my second year as Pacific Coast Manager of the great International Life Insurance Company, and, though I was somewhat young for the responsible position, I felt that I had acquitted myself with honor. 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.