Duchess of Few Clothes

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Excerpt from Duchess of Few Clothes: A Comedy The Pantheon, which rises now a fore-most wonder of Chicago, was originally conceived in the great mind of Alonzo A. Farson, - it was the Pallas of his brain. The name he chose himself: it pleased him mightily, since his ear confessed a liking for a sonorous sound, the tinkling cymbal and the rolling drum of nomenclature. He had called his only daughter Genevra Iola, and his name, Alonzo Alexander Farson, he always wrote in full. Contemplation of his curled and powdered signature afforded him delight. The winter which had seen the building of the Pantheon commenced, had been ordained from the Creation to mark the attainment by the distinguished gentleman of his sixtieth year. Alonzo Alexander's natal days had ever been esteemed by him as the cardinal events about which the whole of each annual procession turned. 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.