Excerpt from The Baddington Peerage, Vol. 2 of 3: Who Won, and Who Wore It, a Story of the Best and the Worst Society Philip Leslie indeed (under which name the poor devil of a painter whom I have heretofore occasionally designated under the embarrassing cognomen of the Unknown will be henceforward recognised in this story), possessed a character and disposition, and was gifted with qualities and attributes, de serving minuter, more extended, and more careful notice, than is usually allotted to the hero of a romance. Of ...
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Excerpt from The Baddington Peerage, Vol. 2 of 3: Who Won, and Who Wore It, a Story of the Best and the Worst Society Philip Leslie indeed (under which name the poor devil of a painter whom I have heretofore occasionally designated under the embarrassing cognomen of the Unknown will be henceforward recognised in this story), possessed a character and disposition, and was gifted with qualities and attributes, de serving minuter, more extended, and more careful notice, than is usually allotted to the hero of a romance. Of his outward guise I have not felt bound to say much, but as regards those inner traits which my power of divination as a story-teller privileges me to foresee and to foreknow, it behoves me to be less concise and more explicit. Bear with me, then, while I endeavour to place before you the man - not in his habit as he lived, for outward garments are but sorry guides, and afford but an Insufficient key to character. 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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