A Ballroom Repentance (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Ballroom RepentanceMy girls, you see, are so unsophisticated l Pansy and Dian, until we came abroad, never mixed in any but the best circles of Cathedral society, and our giddy little Aurora, of course, was still in the schoolroom.A young English lad, tall, bronzed, Oxford-suited, stands, enjoying his after-dinner cigarette, and the view of lake and mountain, at some paces distant from these ladies. At the touching reference to our little Aurora's giddiness, a smile, somewhat doubtful in its import, hovers around the corners of his lips.Miss Aurora Skelton is not exactly what in our American circles we should call a Bud. I Should judge Miss Aurora to be near upon my own time of life i' The tone of Mrs. Scipio Leonidas Briggs is friendly. She smiles like one who makes an amiable, but somewhat rose-coloured concession to human weakness. Yet does her voice imply a query.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.