Seen and Unseen (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Seen and UnseenUnfortunately the day proved unfavourable, and we returned in open boats, also with open umbrellas a generally drenched and bedraggled appearance and nothing to cheer us on the physical plane except a quantity of iced coffee which had been ordered in anticipation of a tropical day.Under these rather trying conditions I can te member getting a good deal of amusement out of the companions in the Special boat which proved to be my fate. Our host, being a clever and interest ing man himself, had collected clever and interesting people round him, on the Birds of a Feather principle, and I happened to sit between two ladies, one the wife (now, alas the widow) of a man who was to become later on one of our most famous bishops, the other - her bosom friend and deadly rival - the wife of an equally distinguished Oxford don.The iced coffee combined With the pouring rain may have been partly to blame, but certainly the conversation that went on between the two ladies, across my umbrella, was decidedly Feline.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.