Excerpt from A Change of Air Now, at last, the rooms were full. For five minutes the shadowy butler had not introduced a new member to the group. There was little talk, for of this large number of people many found them selves alone among strangers. Even those known to each other were suspicious and silent, for no one knew why he had been summoned. Eager, proud, annoyed, mis erable: many qualities of facial expression were there; and all slightly sharpened by resentment. No one would have minded meeting, alone, the rich ...
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Excerpt from A Change of Air Now, at last, the rooms were full. For five minutes the shadowy butler had not introduced a new member to the group. There was little talk, for of this large number of people many found them selves alone among strangers. Even those known to each other were suspicious and silent, for no one knew why he had been summoned. Eager, proud, annoyed, mis erable: many qualities of facial expression were there; and all slightly sharpened by resentment. No one would have minded meeting, alone, the rich hostess who had not yet appeared; but this unex plained crowd, like a prayer-meeting or a table d'hote, was maddening. It savored of sermons or of some abominable char ity. Still, they had all responded to the summons, and they waited, unprotest ing; for they were all poor. Sometimes. 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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