The Permanent Uncle (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Permanent Uncle The comfortable block of flats, of moderate rental, in which Mr. and Mrs. Henri-Anatole Kingston Campbell had taken up their quarters was known in the neighbourhood as "Newly-married Mansions." Officially it was described as Newlyn House. There was a lift which you had to haul up by tugging at a rope, a little patch of garden outside, and a uniformed porter. It was the hall-porter who had specially attracted Mrs. Kingston-Campbell. Her Christian name was Mary, she was the daughter of a Scotch Episcopalian clergyman and she liked things "nice." With characteristic force of character she induced Henri-Anatole to approve, and the rest was easy. Henri-Anatole - or Tim, for short - always said that it was not her force of character at all, but her tip-tilted nose, that did it. But the result was the same. Besides, having enjoyed a fixed income - from securities - nearly all his life, he had grown pleasantly indolent. 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.