The Other Woman (Classic Reprint)
Author: Norah Davis
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2016-10-06
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9781333869298
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from The Other Woman It had been years since he had been in even passing contact with a man of Ellis '8 class, and each little detail of dress and manner brought its separate pang of mem ory, of defeat, of loss, and of intolerable humiliation. His nostrils, so long accustomed to the fetid air of prison corridors, eagerly absorbed the faint odor of health and cleanliness that, mingled with the fragrance of the kin dling cigar, breathed from the man near him; and, with every breath he drew, the hunger for life - the life that had once been his and that this swell little cad accepted as a matter of course - grew fiercer. He had not tasted food for forty-eight hours and within his empty frame his mind was working with the swiftness and precision of an electrical machine. He noted the dull gleam of the gold cigar-case in Ellis's hand, and at the same moment, in a ash of prescience, he saw the years of his own life ahead - the long, slow crawl back to decency; its sordid struggles, its furtive makeshifts - saw himself, like a trodden worm, keeping aside from other men '8 paths for fear - Fear! 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."
