Cecile, Vol. 1 of 3

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Excerpt from Cecile, Vol. 1 of 3: Or Modern Idolaters Many have worshipped at her shrine in this room, numberless are the pleasant stories, merry jests, quips and repartees that due sacrifice to her rites has here evoked. The centre table is decorated with a lamp, various cut glass decanters, and several bottles of potash or seltzer. The candles still burn on the adjacent whist table, where the debris of a rubber, in the shape of a confused heap of cards and mother-of-pearl markers, lie scattered. 'All nonsense, I tell you, ' exclaims a stout, florid man, with his back to the fire, and who, with his legs a little apart, has assumed a position on the hearth-rug that inevitably betokens haranguing the audience. 'I tell you our morality is all cant, our boasted civilisation a sham. The Romans were infinitely our superiors on the latter point. 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.