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Excerpt from Steyneville or Fated Fortunes, Being the Memoirs of an Unextraordinary Man, Vol. 2 of 3
Later on.-how beautiful she looked! 0, how very, very beautiful in her shining silk dress, and her loosely hanging hair. How well, how upright she carried herself, swerving neither to the right nor to the left, which was perfectly marvellous, considering the highness of heels. And she knew it too, of course her very smile was tell me, have you ever seen so fair a creature 'p N o, no, never! Then as she marched up and down the room, to show the two stay-at-homes the full magnificence of her apparel, curtseying now and then, who should come bounding in but Cleopatra's abject slave and admirer, Marc Antony, the dog Another young lady, dictated by prudence and common sense, would have warded OR the caresses of the animal not so Miss Marlande the wilful. For down on the ground she knelt, with her robes, like Ophelia's, wide outspread, and gave him back kiss for kiss. 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.
