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Excerpt from Wolfenberg, Vol. 2 of 3
Yes; you think of such Odd people when you lie awake in the morning. Did you ever hear of the hotel-keeper where there was only the one show-place in the neigh bourhood - the cemetery; and his wife was buried there; and he had put up the most elaborate monument to her - carved marble, and cherubs, and gold letters, and all that; but as soon as the season was over, and his visitors all gone away, he used to bring that monument in-doors and keep it under cover, leaving a plain block of stone in its place. He was another economical man. 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.
