The Ten Books of the Merrymakers, Vol. 10 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Ten Books of the Merrymakers, Vol. 10 In the evening I felt a mighty inclination to go to a party somewhere. There was to be one at Governor J. Neely Johnson's, and I went there and asked permission to stand around a while. This was granted in the most hospitable manner, and the vision of plain quadrilles soothed my weary soul. I felt particularly comfortable, for if there is one thing more grateful to my feelings than another, it is a new house - a large house, with its ceilings embellished with snowy mouldings, its ¿oofs glowing with warm - tinted carpets, with cushioned chairs and sofas to sit oh, and a piano to listen to with fires so ar ranged you can see them, and know there is no humbug about it, with walls garnished with pictures, and above all mirrors, wherein you may gaze and always find some thing to admire, you know. I have a great regard for a good house, and a girlish passion for mirrors. Horace Smith, Esq., is also very fond of mirrors. He came and looked in the glass for an hour with me. Finally it cracked - the night was pretty cold - and Horace Smith's re¿ection was split right down the centre. But where his face had been the damage was greatest - a hundred cracks converged to his re¿ected nose, like spokes from the hub of a wagon wheel. It was the strangest freak the weather has done this winter. And yet the parlor seemed warm and comfortable, too. 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.