Miss. Dividends a Novel (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Miss. Dividends a Novel "Five minutes behind your appointment, " remarks Mr. Whitehouse Southmead in kindly severity, then he laughs and continues: "You see, your oysters are cold." "As they should be, covered up with ice, " returns Captain Harry Storey Lawrence. A moment after, however, he adds more seriously, "I had a good excuse." "An excuse for keeping this waiting?" And White-house pours out lovingly a glass of Chateau Yquem. "Yes, and the best in the world, though probably not one that would be considered good by a lawyer." "Aha! a woman?" rejoins Mr. Southmead. "The most beautiful I have ever seen!" cries Lawrence, the enthusiasm of youth beaming in his handsome dark eyes. "Pooh!" returns the other, "you have only been from the Far West for three days." "True, " remarks Lawrence. "Three days ago I was incompetent, but am not now. 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.