Excerpt from Faces for Fortunes, Vol. 3 of 3 Once, and once only, at the Austrian ambassa dor's state reception, be imagined that he had dis covered his ideal of loveliness. After allowing a sensation closely resembling sudden death to pass away, he made inquiries and sought for an intro' duction. To his horror he learnt that the fair lady was married to a husband in good health and of a fiercely amorous disposition. This, joined to the discovery that the lady could only converse in the Hungarian language - a dialect with ...
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Excerpt from Faces for Fortunes, Vol. 3 of 3 Once, and once only, at the Austrian ambassa dor's state reception, be imagined that he had dis covered his ideal of loveliness. After allowing a sensation closely resembling sudden death to pass away, he made inquiries and sought for an intro' duction. To his horror he learnt that the fair lady was married to a husband in good health and of a fiercely amorous disposition. This, joined to the discovery that the lady could only converse in the Hungarian language - a dialect with which he was thoroughly unacquainted, convinced him that he had better calm his mind and endeavour to imagine that the fair one would never have suited his constitution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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