Author: Florence Irwin

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-19

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 9780483406193

Excerpt from Poor Dear Theodora! Theodora knew every worn spot in the rug, and just how it must be covered with a chair or a card table. (aunt Augusta was entertaining at Bridge this afternoon.) She knew how a vase of flowers must be carefully disposed so as to hide the crack in the long mirror that surmounted the hideous brown slate mantel. The. Mirror, in spite of its chipped and tarnished frame, was a beautiful heirloom, a relic of a day when taste was so clean and pure (albeit a trifle cold) as to make one gasp in wonder at the later transition to horsehair, and plush, and slate mantels out lined in gilt, and hideous brown-and-gold wall paper, and atrocious hanging cabinets with glass doors and irregularly placed shelves, and patent rockers upholstered in art stuffs. All of these things abounded in the room where Theodora stood, duster in hand, kitchen apron reducing her figure to a shapeless mass. But the room held better things as well. One of them was Theodora herself. In Spite of the disfiguring Chrysalis which shrouded her, it was abundantly evident that Theodora was a very good thing indeed. 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.