Excerpt from A Moment's Mistake, Vol. 1 A winter evening in London, and, in the din ing-room of a house in Harley Street, two men had finished dinner. Everything - from the stocks round their necks and the straps of their trousers, together with each hideous and costly article of furniture - proclaimed the period in which they lived. Early Victorian was stamped upon the florid pattern of the carpet, and on the ornaments and gilding of the room. But though their dress bespoke a date, the ages of the men themselves ...
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Excerpt from A Moment's Mistake, Vol. 1 A winter evening in London, and, in the din ing-room of a house in Harley Street, two men had finished dinner. Everything - from the stocks round their necks and the straps of their trousers, together with each hideous and costly article of furniture - proclaimed the period in which they lived. Early Victorian was stamped upon the florid pattern of the carpet, and on the ornaments and gilding of the room. But though their dress bespoke a date, the ages of the men themselves were not so easy to determine, except that both were past their prime. Close by them, with the dessert and wine upon it, stood the table they had left to sit in their armchairs. 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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