Polly (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Polly Lady Prendergast gave herself the full benefit of her five feet eleven inches and surveyed the porter with a majesty of aspect - derived partly from an episcopal father, and partly from ten years of official life in the Tropics - which never deserted her in moments of crisis. Lady Prendergast's three little girls - Polly, Molly, and Jolly - grouped themselves behind her skirts and stared at the common enemy like little insects, with enormous eyes. "Ally-vous-on, " she commanded, in that French - ruthless and unfaltering - with which for generations the British matron has been wont to flatten her way across the continent of Europe. The porter, however, declined to consider the interview at an end. "Ça ecrit!" he shrieked, waving his hands above the voluminous baggage of the Prendergast family, and indicating the bad franc-piece with which he had been rewarded for bringing it from the railway station. "Ça ecrit!" He made marks on the white walls of the second-floor corridor of the "Splendid Hotel, " in proof of his assertion, he scrawled all over the labels on the portmanteaux. 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.