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Excerpt from The Agony Column
Geoffrey, was as American as Kansas, his native state, and only pressing businesswas at that moment holding him in Eng land, far from the country that glowed? Unusually rosy because of its remoteness. At the Carlton news stand West bought two morning papers - the Times for study and the M ail for entertainment - and then passed on into the restaurant. His waiter - a tall soldierly Prussian, more blond than West himself - saw him coming and, with a nod and a mechanical German smile, set out for the plate of strawberries which he knew would be the first thing desired by the American West seated himself at his usual table and, Spreading out the Daily Mail, sought his favorite column. The first item in that column brought a delighted smile to his face. 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.
